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WOR Street Reporter Natalie Migliore Interviews · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's sevent ten wars Beat on the Street with
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore. You know, the first city to have congestion
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  Speaker 1: pricing was London, and they reported ending up with fresher
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  Speaker 1: air in their city center, but not New York City
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  Speaker 1: after over a year, So licent Natalie Agliori, Natalie Maglioi, Nigliori.
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  Speaker 2: But what a down into theag whatever, down into the
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  Speaker 2: pollitic streets of Gotham City to find out from residents
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  Speaker 2: if they were sold wolf tickets, because remember that was
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  Speaker 2: one of the selling points. You're gonna have fresher, cleaner,
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  Speaker 2: unpolluted air as a result of paying nine bucks every
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  Speaker 2: time it comes south of sixty.
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  Speaker 3: It's I got. The interest is longer than your report.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. I will now take it from here. Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 4: if you're listening to us, you may be on your
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  Speaker 4: way to New York York City's congestion pricing zone right now,
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  Speaker 4: or maybe you're driving to your job that's more local
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  Speaker 4: because you refuse to pay that nine dollars on top
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  Speaker 4: of everything else just to get to an office that's
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  Speaker 4: below Manhattan sixtieth Street. Either way, a recent report from
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  Speaker 4: New York City shows congestion pricing has very little effect
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  Speaker 4: on the air quality. So nearly two years in are
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  Speaker 4: people surprised.
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  Speaker 5: Not at all. People are gonna drive, whether they're taxed
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  Speaker 5: with that or not. I'm glad i gave up my
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  Speaker 5: cap five years ago, and I'm a happier person not driving.
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  Speaker 5: Without question.
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  Speaker 6: Hundreds of people are driving into the city, so it
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  Speaker 6: doesn't really matter if they assume it was gonna help
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  Speaker 6: quality of air. But I'm assuming insida.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to say, oh, is there an upside
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  Speaker 3: to it?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, they're paying money, but the air is better and
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  Speaker 5: if it's not, then you just say, who's getting the money?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 4: What a valid question. Go around asking subway riders who
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  Speaker 4: who's getting the money? And they're confused themselves, especially since
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  Speaker 4: the MTA already plans to raise fares once again next year. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the city's report claims traffic has freed up and has
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  Speaker 4: not led to an increase in pollutants on outer borough roadways.
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  Speaker 4: That was a major concern before the toll went into effect,
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  Speaker 4: that pollution would rise in the Bronx and major roadways around,
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  Speaker 4: but that report shows it didn't. However, Columbia University researchers
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  Speaker 4: earlier this year. There is some you know, there's some
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  Speaker 4: not collusion, but confusion and how like a negative to
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  Speaker 4: it in a sense. Researchers found air pollution rose in
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  Speaker 4: the South Bronx earlier this year. So there's conflicting reports. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so does the truth lie somewhere in the middle.
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  Speaker 7: Then always get away with a lot of things that
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  Speaker 7: then as opposed to be probably doing, but they continue doing.
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  Speaker 7: Is the people, we are the one who are getting
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  Speaker 7: the worse of these things.
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  Speaker 5: They are going to find ways to tax us no
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  Speaker 5: matter what it is. Okay, tariffs, MTA, taxes, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 5: Taxes are taxes. It's revenue. It's needed for someone, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm always suspicious.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I just see it's another tax, you know.
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  Speaker 3: For New Yorkers, a tax are a penalty.
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  Speaker 4: Now it may just be considered a penalty, especially for
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  Speaker 4: drivers like this one from Queens who she tells me
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  Speaker 4: part of the reason she won't take a job in
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  Speaker 4: Manhattan is because of the toll.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it would impact the fact that I wouldn't even
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  Speaker 6: drive to the city. If I had to, I would
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  Speaker 6: definitely use public transportation. The prices are ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: And my slogan for the MTA is you can't get
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  Speaker 5: there from here, So that's how they operate.
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  Speaker 4: Everything just is kind of a layer and a layer
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  Speaker 4: and a layer of pointlessness and nothing gets done.
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  Speaker 3: What did it do?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 3: They're just putting money in their pockets, but everybody else
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  Speaker 3: is losing.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: The MTA has said they're using the money from congestion
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  Speaker 4: pricing to invest in cutting down pollution in other areas.
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  Speaker 4: Right the remember one of the first purchases they made
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  Speaker 4: when they said it was one of the first congestion
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  Speaker 4: pricing purchases, it was the electric bus fleet, which a
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  Speaker 4: study last week showed that they're breaking down even more
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  Speaker 4: than ever. They can't get where they need to go.
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  Speaker 4: So they put the money into this, and people really
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  Speaker 4: aren't seeing results, especially when I'm on the street. People
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  Speaker 4: tell me.
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  Speaker 3: This is such an important story too, because if you remember,
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  Speaker 3: many of the lawsuits in New Jersey and the Bronx
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  Speaker 3: and the outer Burrows had to do with pollution and
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  Speaker 3: the fact that they are going to get it there
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  Speaker 3: and they're going to get congestion, and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: get more pollution and the air quality is going to
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  Speaker 3: go down. They were right all along and all of
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  Speaker 3: those lawsuits were thrown out. They should sue again. Well
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  Speaker 3: we'll have to see.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, time will tell. And the interesting part about
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  Speaker 4: this is that and nobody brought this up when we
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  Speaker 4: were talking about the study comes from the city. The
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  Speaker 4: study comes from the city, so they implemented it and
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  Speaker 4: they approved it the MTA. So what's really going on here.
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  Speaker 3: They can't disavow it now. Natalie Migliori, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 3: That was great. Should be back tomorrow with her beat
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  Speaker 3: on the street. Yes, she's doing a little victory dance
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  Speaker 3: in front of the street.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'll take it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going down to the zone.