Traffic to the Hunts Point Produce Market causes increased rates of asthma in surrounding neighborhoods.
Revenue from New York City’s congestion pricing program funded the purchase of the first 20 of up to 1,000 electric-hybrid transport refrigeration units used to transport items to and from a large produce market in the South Bronx.
As Jose Martinez reports in The City, “Replacing transport refrigeration units is among congestion pricing’s promised mitigation measures for The Bronx, where total asthma emergency room visits from 2022 to 2024 far outpaced rates from other boroughs, according to state Health Department data.”
The city is buying the first 20 hybrid units now and plans to add another 75 to the fleet later this year. According to Janno Lieber, MTA chairperson and chief executive, “Replacing just one of these units avoids the particulate matter, the emissions, of 330 truck trips per day on the Cross Bronx Expressway.”
The initiative to replace diesel trucks is one of the benefits that congestion pricing is having outside the toll zone itself, where air pollution has fallen by more than 20% since the program started.
Read the full story: Congestion Tolls Fund Fridges to Replace Diesel-Spewing Units in South Bronx
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