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Feb. 25, 2025 - The David Knight Show
11:41
Everyone Hates “Congestion Pricing” - But They Don’t See What’s Behind It
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new york city congestion pricing has generated nearly 50 million dollars in the first month So Trump administration is moving to kill the plan.
And that's a really good thing.
But we need to understand them.
As I said, we're going to look at the different justifications that people have for shutting this thing down.
You know, Trump's transportation secretary doesn't really have a problem with congestion pricing.
And he makes that clear.
And then you've got local people who want to oppose it, mainly because of money.
Small businesses and individuals who are getting hit like $9 every time they pass through Go.
They don't collect $200.
They pay $9 in this monopoly pricing.
And they want to monopolize transportation.
That is the key issue here.
Nobody talks about that.
And it is part of the smart city agenda.
Just listen to the Globalist, a short clip, where they talk about we need to move to mobility as a service.
Welcome to Global Agenda.
To tackle the challenges of rapid urbanization and mobility, governments and businesses are having their attentions turned to a key concept known as MOS, or Mobility as a Service.
There you go.
It's a key concept.
They even refer to it by its three-letter acronym.
Moss.
Don't let the moss grow on you.
Mobility is a service.
Because it'll be a service.
Everything will be a service.
You will own nothing.
You'll rent everything, including your mobility.
And then she goes on to show, well, you know, we have, I think it's Finland or something.
This is what it looks like.
You pull up your phone.
And it gives you all these different options for how to get from point A to point B. And it tells you how much each of these things are going to cost.
You know, what if I rent an electric scooter?
Or what if I rent a bicycle?
Or what if I rent a ride in a car?
Or whatever.
What if I go on a bus or subway?
How much of this stuff?
But you will own nothing.
And you'll have no liberty if you have no mobility.
This is key.
This is the key concept behind the 15-minute city.
It's about taking away ownership, taking away mobility.
The program is on track to generate $500 million in net revenue by the end of this year.
That is a conservative figure.
I've seen other figures that were higher than that.
So, the U.S. Department of Transportation last week said it pulled federal approval for the plan following a review that was requested by Trump.
The review found that the scope of this pilot program, as approved, Exceeds the authority authorized by Congress under the Federal Highway Administration's Value Pricing Pilot Program.
Like I said before, it's a pilot.
The Biden administration, the Democrats, want to pile this on all of us.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday that it exceeded the scope of the pilot project as approved.
So, the question is, what's going to be said in the courts?
Because Congress has approved this, so the question is, does it exceed the authority that Congress gave it?
Now, that's a legal issue.
We understand what the bigger issue is here, one way or the other.
And so, when you look at congestion pricing, listen to this report out of New York, local news station.
And listen to the different objections that people have to this.
All different.
And not a single one that gets to the core issue.
She received a letter from Trump's Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, warning federal officials will contact the state to discuss the orderly cessation of the tolling plan.
I think there's a lot of great ideas around congestion pricing and how we can reduce it.
But you can't take American taxpayers.
Who paid for roads and block them out and say, you can't access this unless you pay additional money.
Well, that's what congestion pricing is.
He thinks there's a lot of great ideas.
...which was approved by the Biden administration last year and began on January 5th.
Since then, most drivers have been charged $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
Traffic was down 9% in January.
The streets are safer.
Half as many crashes, and that means pedestrians are not getting injured and killed.
The MTA has said congestion pricing will help raise $15 billion for repairs to mass transit.
But critics argue it hurts working-class commuters and may negatively impact...
Who will pay that $15 billion?
...just outside the zone.
It is bad policy that hurts our economy, hurts small businesses, hurts residents.
And I'm glad that he swiftly took action to reverse this flawed program.
Governor Murphy addressed the federal government's action today on News 12 New Jersey's Ask Governor Murphy.
Yeah, they got there for different reasons than we got there, but they got to the same place.
Our basis was there was not a full environmental study done around this, that the pollution really wasn't going away.
It was moving from Manhattan to New Jersey.
Okay, so they all got there for different reasons.
I'm glad that they shut it down.
I hope it stays shut down.
But everybody gets there for different reasons.
First, they start out with Sean Duffy.
The Department of Transportation head for the Secretary of Transportation, whatever it is, I don't know.
There's too many bureaucracies, right?
Anyway, Sean Duffy, there's a lot of great ideas about congestion pricing.
No, there's not.
There's not any good ideas about congestion pricing.
All of it.
He says, yeah, but you know, you've got people who are going to pay taxes for the roads, and then they've got to pay extra for this other thing.
That's just not a good idea.
Hey, doofus.
Duffy doofus.
That's the whole point of congestion.
It's always going to be an additional tax over the taxes that you paid in your fuel, the taxes that you paid in general and property taxes and in fuel taxes and all the rest of the stuff.
And it's really a freedom issue, but he doesn't see that.
Sean Duffy, Trump's guy, the doofus, says it's a great idea, but it's just too expensive here.
Then you've got a New York Democrat.
This is great.
Look at that.
Fewer cars, fewer accidents.
Let's get rid of all the cars.
Then you've got the small business owners and the people that are going to be suffering because people will just not go to Manhattan.
They'll avoid paying the $9 to go there.
And as I talk about the amount of money, $15 billion with a B, where's that money going to come from?
Well, just like the tariffs, right?
It's going to be paid by consumers.
And so $15 billion out of the people that live there in the tri-state area.
And they will not get any service for that.
It'll go into something that none of them choose to use, right?
Why do you have the congestion issue?
Well, because people don't like riding the buses and the trains and the subways for the most part.
So, you know, just take a look at what's going on with it.
The crime and things like that that are happening on the subway.
People prefer to be in their cars.
Then you've got the New Jersey Democrat governor, Murphy.
And he said, well, we get here, different reasons, but we all got to the same place here.
And he said, well, we found that there wasn't any environmental studies.
In other words, he said, you're not reducing emissions of CO2, which again, that's their justification.
That must be opposed.
But he's saying, you're not reducing it.
You're just moving it.
Well, hey, Murphy.
Murphy's Law.
That's exactly what they did with the Paris Climate Accord.
We took manufacturing and we moved it from the U.S. and Europe to China and to India.
And guess what?
Their manufacturing is a lot dirtier than our manufacturing was.
They're not required to do anything to clean up the exhaust from their power plants.
And so this is just the Paris Climate Accord.
In a microcosm.
The absurdity of the Paris Climate Accord.
And then you have Trump.
Now, Trump was not in that report.
But Trump tweeted out, when he said, this was his tweet, all uppercase, congestion pricing is dead.
Manhattan and all of New York is saved.
Long live the king.
And he puts a picture up of himself with a crown on it.
So what is that about?
King of New York City is what he wants to be.
Donald Trump is very, very badly treated by the prosecutors in New York City.
I would agree with him on that.
So, yeah, he was treated very badly, and he wants to be seen as the King of New York.
He should just buy, like, one of these giant billboards at Times Square.
Say, you miss me yet, New York?
He might do that.
Who knows?
But that's basically it.
You missed me yet?
The 15-minute city concept is built around the fallacy that travel reduction is necessary to save the planet from global warming.
Create artificial obstacles through law to reduce and to remove individual travel.
The World Economic Forum refers to this as sustainable and inclusive mobility.
See, the only way that their dictatorship is going to be sustainable is if they take away everything from us.
If we own nothing, if we can't move, then...
Their dictatorship is sustainable, and we go into a new dark age.
Whenever you hear the term sustainable development, you need to look at what they're trying to develop and what they're trying to sustain.
It is not the planet.
It's their power, their tyranny, their new dark ages.
So they present sustainable mobility as a quest for convenience to encourage people to stop using private transportation.
Look, just like I've said before about public health and about public education, We can throw in public transportation.
Public health is not about your health.
It's antithetical to your health.
Public education is not about your education or your child's education.
It is antithetical to education.
It dumbs people down.
It's an indoctrination.
It seeks to corrupt them and leave them ignorant.
So public education is not about your education.
It's not about education at all.
Just like public health is not.
And guess what?
Public transportation is not about transportation either.
All of this is about government power and government agendas.
Whenever you see the prefix of public, you know what that's about.
It's tyranny over our minds and our bodies.
That's right, boys and girls.
There's a post-election sale on silver and gold.
Trump euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold.
It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense is.
Go to davidknight.gold to get in touch with the wise wolf himself, Tony Arterburn.
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