On the bright side, the system’s tunnels should get cellphone service in the coming years. Subway: Few subway stations in the city have air-conditioned platforms.Congestion Pricing: It could soon cost $23 to drive through Manhattan, as the city moves toward introducing a tolling program to reduce traffic.Officials are racing to keep track of the numerous warehouses sprouting up, to create more zones for trucks to unload and to encourage some deliveries to be made by boat as the city struggles to cope with a booming online economy. The immense changes in New York have been driven by tech giants, other private businesses and, increasingly, by independent couriers, often without the city’s involvement, oversight or even its awareness, The New York Times found. Amazon added two warehouses in the city over the summer. At least two million square feet of warehouse space is being built in New York, including what will be the largest center of its kind in the country. Neighborhoods like Red Hook, Brooklyn, are being used as logistics hubs to get packages to customers faster than ever. As a result, cars in the busiest parts of Manhattan now move just above a jogger’s pace, about 7 m.p.h., roughly 23 percent slower than at the beginning of the decade. While the rise of ride-hailing services like Uber has unquestionably caused more traffic, the proliferation of trucks has worsened the problem.
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