
There was little doubt that New York City’s congestion pricing scheme, which charges vehicles a toll to enter parts of the city, would benefit pedestrians who would have to compete with fewer 4,000-pound hunks of metal on wheels blowing through intersections. Turns out, it’s also been pretty good for the people behind the wheels of those beasts. According to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, traffic backups have also lessened in the outer…

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