Jul 3, 2008 2:07 pm US/Eastern
High Gas Prices Reducing NYC Car Traffic
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Soaring gas prices and higher tolls are reducing NYC car traffic. With gasoline at more than $4 a gallon, fewer people are driving into the city.
AP
High gas prices may succeed where Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed.
Bloomberg's plan to reduce car traffic by charging drivers a fee to enter Manhattan died in Albany.
But soaring gas prices and higher tolls are now having the same effect. With gasoline at more than $4 a gallon, fewer people are driving into the city.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that traffic at its bridges in tunnels was down 4.7 percent in May compared with the previous year.
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