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The Manhattan congestion article briefly recognises trip elimination (vs modal shift) but doesn’t explore the economic impact (or indeed socio-cultural impact) to the city of the people no longer choosing to come to/through the congestion zone.
The impact is hard to measure unless the cameras were switched on for a few months prior to charging commencing to provide a traffic survey to segregate (as far as is possible) how many vehicles travelled into the zone (local impacts) vs through the zone (regional impact).
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“Where are those trips going? One possibility is more of these drivers are ditching the car for the train more than the MTA forecasted.”
Implied that modal shift is happening.
If London is anything to go by, the increased use of public transport (and the increased speed of buses) means far more people enter to zone.