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“New York City is throwing away its welcome mat. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a new $8-a-day tax for the privilege of driving into Manhattan (unless you stay north of 86th street). For trucks, it’s even worse: $21 a day. The mayor calls it a ‘congestion fee.’ In fact, it’s a tax and a penalty for using a motor vehicle. The revenue would go to mass transit, not to roads and bridges. City officials across America are watching to see whether Bloomberg can push it through — because plenty of those cities have worse traffic congestion than the Big Apple, according to the leading national study. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Boston, Orlando, San Diego and Baltimore are just some of the areas with worse congestion, determined by the annual benchmark study done by Texas A&M University.” (04/29/07)