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Andrew Stern
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Tourism is good.
July 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This video is amazing but the buried lede is that Zohran is unabashedly pro-tourism (as all mayors should be!)
July 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The sooner it starts, the sooner you can start to climb out of the polling valley.

NYC took an excruciatingly long time to start our program, and the result was years of public fights, negative stories, and fear mongering.
January 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
2) Start it ASAP. As many have pointed out, we’re now in the “valley of polling death” on congestion pricing. Press coverage is more negative than ever. There will be an initial upset when the charges start.

But public approval of the program will climb soon after.
January 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
And of course, there are the thousands of New Yorkers who tirelessly called the Governor and their representatives from June until the announcement in November.

Here we were in June:
January 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Great to see!! 👏

Do you know why the final expansion number here is 36,000, but the announcement last November said 40,000 by the end of Phase 3?
December 13, 2024 at 7:32 PM