One major decongestion experiment is surprising the haters

The early data is in, and it’s impressive.

Traffic enters the Congestion Relief Zone from the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in New York, 2025. [Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images]

American cities are choking on traffic. From Los Angeles to Chicago, Atlanta to Boston, gridlock is miserable for everyone. New York City’s Congestion Relief Zone offers a data-rich blueprint for cities willing to treat transportation as a system, rather than focusing on one form of travel at a time. 

Launched in January 2025, the program charges most drivers entering Manhattan’s core business district during peak hours. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA)........

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