{"id":427648,"date":"2025-12-06T00:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427648\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:48:27","slug":"hochuls-congestion-pricing-fix-for-businesses-is-hopelessly-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427648\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul&#8217;s congestion pricing &#8216;fix&#8217; for businesses is hopelessly lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul has swell advice for businesses getting slammed by congestion pricing: Just get your deliveries in the dead of night!<\/p>\n<p>Answering complaints about price hikes to make up for the cost of her much-hated toll, the gov haughtily <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/04\/us-news\/hochul-tells-companies-to-deliver-goods-overnight-to-cut-down-on-congestion-pricing-fees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advised businesses,<\/a> \u201cThey should be definitely looking at the lower cost points for deliveries\u201d during off-peak hours \u2014 meaning, between 9pm and 5am.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, thanks, Kat.<\/p>\n<p>Why haven\u2019t owners already thought of such a bang-up idea themselves? <\/p>\n<p>Oh, maybe because that\u2019s when nearly all regularly operating businesses are closed. <\/p>\n<p>The cost of driving below 60th Street is indeed lower overnight; just $3.60 to $5.40 per delivery truck, versus $14.40 to $21.60 during the busiest stretch.<\/p>\n<p>But peak hours are peak hours because that\u2019s when most people need to be in the city because that\u2019s when most stores, offices and restaurants are open. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/04\/opinion\/chameleon-kathy-hochul-softens-us-up-for-another-tax-hike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hochul may have<\/a> assistants running all of her errands for her, but most New Yorkers are aware of this fact.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>To \u201csave money\u201d by getting deliveries overnight, most operations would have to hire workers specifically to sit around and wait to accept them, which would quickly surpass the cost of her congestion tolls.<\/p>\n<p>Even open-late restaurants need supplies long before, not during, dinner rush.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul might as well channel Marie Antoinette: Answer toll complaints with a simple \u201cLet them eat cake!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then again, she may want to recall Queen Marie\u2019s fate and ditch the tolls before her victims get to vote next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. 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