New York Declares War On Traffic (A Congestion Pricing Story)

ah New York city where the rent can overwhelm even the hardest working trust

fund kids the rats can chew through the mighty plastic bags of garbage we

leave on the sidewalks

and the cars fly through the streets at a Brisk stop it's truly the

greatest city on Earth

but on January 5th 2025 New Yorkers turned their backs on their god-given right

to sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic for hours by implementing a policy known

as congestion pricing basically

if you want to drive your car into one of the most congested cities

on the planet now you pay a toll

and wouldn't you know it it's working really well

but then president Trump stepped in

and issued an executive tweet to stop the policy you remember the tweet it

was the one where he posted

that AI generated picture of himself

as king and kind of freaked a lot of people out well New York

thinks that maybe you can't do

that so they kept the policy in place

and now I guess we're going to court to see

if a States right small government president can in big government Estates right away

hi I'm Raley Williams a guy with a climate science

and policy degree and to promise to say I'm walking here at some point

in the next 20 minutes

and this is a video about New York's battle with traffic welcome to climate

town in the United States we love to drive our elderly Drive our teens

Drive even our children drive he drove his great-grandmother's car more than a mile

on a busy road in Minnesota where were you going to the gas station

how come because I love Rees we love driving

so much that we paved

as much of America

as we possibly could we even spent hundreds of billions of dollars of federal

taxpayer money on the interstate highway system we worship cars we give them the

sides of the streets to park on we give them extra Lanes on highways

for more cars and now they can go faster oops there's more traffic just

add another Lane and there we go oops there's traffic again well we'll fix

it and we'll use taxpayer money

because everybody loves cars

and after a century of being showered with gifts cars

and their infrastructure have completely taken over American life you just got a massive

chunk of land to build your new restaurant no actually you're about to be

the proud owner of a paved parking lot with a tiny food service problem

or maybe you're someone who lives in the city of Houston not there you're

not or there or there that's where the cars live

and they love it here

or maybe you're trying to write the Pixar movie Cars

and you have to dream up a world that's designed for cars rather than

humans you start by deleting the people

and you're done cuz we already have

that and I'm not saying there's no upside to being able to drive practically

anywhere you want for almost nothing

but after a hundred years of giving away massive subsidies

and publicly funded infrastructure to cars maybe it's time to see

if people actually love cars

as much as our taxpayer dollars imply

and that brings us to congestion pricing

but don't worry cuz this is truly a high school economics level concept almost

every Road in the United States is completely free to use our entire Society

is planned around the economic incentive of this socialized infrastructure

and because roads are such an insanely good deal for people with cars it

is non-stop Black Friday smashed into the front door of a Walmart on a

lot of roads in populated areas one sales rep climbing on a table to

escape the crowd but

while we use taxpayer money to build

and maintain road infrastructure only people with access to a vehicle can actually drive

on it and since it's expensive to buy maintain fuel store

and and ensure a car

that makes roads less of a free gift for everyone

and more of a matching grant

that the government will give you

if you can first afford to pay a bunch of money to have a

car of your own estimates put the full cost of car ownership at about

$112,000 per year on average

so free roads are a great deal

if you're rich and kind of a sh deal

if you don't have an extra 12K a year lying around

but for almost all the US Car infrastructure is

so dominant and Alternate transportation is

so non-existent that you are functionally required to own a car

if you want to participate in modern society

and yes about a quarter of

that road infrastructure cash does come from a tax on gasoline

that drivers pay directly

but the vast majority of the money for America's free roads is taken from

the general public and

then redistributed only to the people who can afford a car

and also this is crazy cars do this weird thing where they constantly vent

dangerous particulate matter in greenhouse gases into the open sewer

that we sometimes refer to

as outside I mean

if car exhaust went back into the vehicle the occupants would die in a

matter of minutes so instead we send it out into the world no harm

no foul wait I'm hearing now no car exhaust is linked to a gagle

of problems including cardiovascular disease respiratory issues asthma childhood leukemia

and of course climate change

and just to say it the people who live closer to traffic tend to

make less money and experience these problems more

and also cars just straight up kill more than a million people every year

around the world in crashes

and permanently disable Millions more

but for the most part we don't price the actual cost of any of

these things into the cost of driving a car instead we forc Society to

absorb these costly externalities for the good of the motherland

so what if what

if we made it a little less ridiculously cheap to use the most in

demand roads by charging drivers a little bit you know kind of like we

do with everything else in society like oh I don't know just off the

top of my head food shelter

and healthc Care in America roads got all the communism

and I'm here to say I don't think

so Demitri so let's price roads a little more fairly with congestion pricing basically

you mark out a Zone that's constantly clogged with cars

and then you charge a fee for every car

that enters that zone

and that's it I mean you can get way more intense with it with

Dynamic prices at different times

and a bunch of other modifications for fairer pricing

or you can just start simple

and easy and the money you make from congestion pricing you can spend on

public transportation and further reduce the number of people who feel the need to

drive their cars to Time Square to shop at the M&M store

and further increase the strength

and use of your public transportation Network

and that's the deal

that is truly what the president is in a fight with New York City

about this should not be controversial this is just good urban planning policy

and like a lot of other seemingly great solutions to massive problems in the

US these are not ideas

that we're just now thinking of here is lawyer urban planning Brainiac Ted Keel

all the way back in 1969 Equitable

but sound Transportation policy to have the motorist help subsidize mass transportation

because the subsidy he is getting for the privilege of driving to

and from work in an automobile is

so out of proportion to the mass Subway Rider to the detriment even of

the motorist himself that was 55 years ago they were also correctly worried about

what would happen to the environment

if we continued to let cars take over the world we're talking about uh

a quality of life in a city

and I think it's increasingly recognized

that one of the Pleasant pressures of big city life is the strangulation of

the gasoline engine that pollutes the air fouls the streets uh

and grinds at the nerves I wonder what he means by grinding at the

nerves this is dangerous this is dangerous

but despite the dire warnings of urban planners doing the math

and then looking at it 1960s New York failed to implement congestion pricing

then in 1975 Singapore rolled out the world's first congestion pricing plan using the

cuttingedge technology of police officers looking at cars

then in 2003 London changed the game they implemented a congestion pricing plan using

the cameras they already had installed all over the financial district why did they

have a bunch of cameras installed all over the financial district well they were

trying to stop the Irish Republican Army from bombing them

so much why was the IRA doing

that I'm sure it wasn't no reason why don't you look it up it's

not technically related to this video we just thought it was an interesting fact

when they flipped the switch London system charged drivers a flat fee

if they drove into a Zone in the center of the city between 7:00

a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on a weekday

and London also made the Bold decision to add 300 extra buses for people

who wanted to switch to public transit

and it was a massive success right away within a few years Transport for

London reported that traffic was down 15 %

and congestion had dropped by 30%

while they had raised 122 million pounds

that mostly went to improving bus service the congestion charging scheme in London is

one of the best transport initiatives for over a generation some 29,000 more londoners

are using buses during peak time with bus Journeys at their highest since London

transports Heyday in the late 50s well it's very hard to bring me this

thing it's only going eyes Meanwhile Back across the Pond New York City Mayor

Michael Bloomberg was trying to get New York's Groove Back depending on your age

you might only remember Michael Bloomberg from the time he was murdered by Elizabeth

Warren in the Democratic presidential primaries I'd like to talk about who we're running

against a billionaire who calls women fat broads

and horse-faced lesbians and no I'm not talking about Donald Trump I'm talking about

Mayor Bloomberg Democrats are not hello darkness my old friend

but in 2007 Mayor Bloomberg tried to pass congestion pricing in New York

as part of a plan called planyc plan

and plan and plan n YC plan n it works better in writing than

it does spoken the success of congestion pricing in London a city with a

similar population Urban layout

and transportation system got Bloomberg foaming at the mouth unfortunately New York politics are

a fial mistress and state Democrats didn't much care for

that Plucky billionaire plus a general status quo by

and a jumalia of other problems prevented congestion pricing from even getting a vote

in the State Assembly

then as New York grew

and people continued to pour in a completely unpredictable thing happened a horrendous morning

commute that left thousands stuck on trains

and in stations sweating

and hoping to get to work at some point right now the average speed

of traffic in New York City is 5 mph that's 23% slower than it

was in 2010 it sounded like a big bump like we hit something

or something and then the engine just went dead blazing hell down there everybody

screaming and yelling cops are down there they sent another um car in to

rescue us to pull us out

and there was a problem with

that car so they had to rescue

that one someone with a Twitter handle snowy MCG grumpkin said quote hey at

MTA my Friday feeling is hot grumpy

and late police describe it

as near Riot conditions now this is not just disgraceful

and frustrating it's dangerous

and by the way I do feel a little bit bad for Governor Cuomo

he just happened to be governor in 2017 he had to pick up the

pieces from the previous governor who is also Andrew Cuomo for six years

and in those six years Governor Cuomo cut tolls on the verzo bridge

and pulled money from the MTA budget to cover the loss pushed through a

payroll tax cut that ultimately pulled money from the MTA

and consistently looked to divert MTA budget to cover other budget gaps Cuomo even

suggested that the state have a please help good idea sweep Stakes where they

would give a million dollars for any good idea about what the they could

do with the subway

and through it all it seems like Cuomo was able to avoid a lot

of criticism from the public

because some people didn't realize the governor is in charge of the MTA

but then the MTA finally got its savior a man named Andy biford who

had a history of turning struggling transit systems around

and it was going really great until he suddenly resigned less than 2 years

in we may never know why

but we do have this quote

that might explain it he increasingly clashed with the one official who has the

final say over the Subways Governor Andrew M Cuomo who considers himself something of

a modern-day master builder what a guy well I don't really care what you

think but amidst all this self-inflicted chaos Governor Cuomo commissioned his own report called

Fix NYC which is much easier to say who cares who caused all these

problems there's no way to tell we just got to find a way to

fix fix the traffic

while also funding the Subways

and guess what does both of those things Start Spreading the News I'm leaving

today I want to be a part of it New York New York

so who gives a

that congestion pricing is simple

and highly effective urban planning policy Cuomo just needed the money to fix the

Subways and wouldn't you know it that's what got congestion pricing passed

and you don't get any more New York than

that so now it's finally time to implement congestion pressure overnight the number of

cases surging to nearly 3,000 here in the United States whoops sorry about

that okay now it's really time for congestion price Andrew Cuomo New York's politically

predacious Governor Calling it Quits after an investigation by the state attorney general documented

multiple sexual harassment allegations oh dang okay

but at least the new governor Kathy hok loves congestion pricing well

then you love congestion pricing right this is

when we demonstrate leadership

and in June of 2024 New York city became America's first I have come

to the difficult decision

that implementing the plan congestion pricing system risks too many unintended consequences for New

Yorkers at this time I have directed the MTA to indefinitely pause the program

what the the are you doing Kathy hook you just said you love congestion

pricing you just spent $57 million installing the cameras what are you

and I'm proud to announce the MTA will Implement a congestion pricing plan oh

my God okay so it looks like Kathy hokel just paused congestion pricing

so she could do a 4D chess move where she won some House Seats

from Suburban Republicans which didn't work at all

but whatever it's back

and after Decades of advocacy conest pricing officially started in New York City on

January 5th 2025 so you want to drive your 2ton vehicle into the most

densely populated city in America here's what you got to know to enter this

part of Manhattan between 5:00 a.m.

and 9:00 p.m. on weekdays you'll be charged $9 once per day you can

then drive in and out of the Zone like an absolute psycho without additional

charges motorcycles Pay Less trucks pay more

and taxis and ride shairs are eligible for a lower fee

if you're just passing through on the FDR Westside highway

or the carry tunnel you get to skip the toll

and the price drops to just $2.25

if you're driving a car in at night

but now that the cameras are on there's one question on everybody's mind is

congestion pricing working well the short answer is yeah the long answer is

and not to get too annoying here

but of course it worked it's basic ass supply

and demand economics that has already worked in several other cities including one extremely

similar to New York

and also also New York already has multiple other tools for driving over Bridges

and through tunnels and they work why wouldn't this one work

but I know what you number heads want some preliminary Transit data who wildly

faster commute times practically across the board we're talking a 48% drop in commute

times through the Holland Tunnel

and 30% % drops in times over the Williamsburg

and Queensboro Bridges and that's not all

but first the news at 5 latest NPD numbers show major Subway crime is

falling it comes as a ridership is growing underground due to congestion pricing chrisy

kesian is live outside the West 72nd Street Station good morning Christie good morning

thanks Christie pretty bold claim to make after just a couple of months of

data but according to the MTA car tra appears to be down by about

9% in February correlating with a drop in emissions

and foot traffic appears to be up by about 5% correlating with a rise

and people saying I'm walking here

and if we zoom out this is actually pretty groundbreaking sure congestion pricing technically

made 8.66 million for New York City in tolls in less than a month

but fewer people people stuck in traffic means people are wasting less of their

lives behind the wheel making roads free might feel Equitable

but it really just means

that everyone is equally allowed to lose hours of their lives

when you lose an hour it's gone forever

but when you charge a fee

that fee sticks around

and can be redistributed to make people's lives better

and more efficient the most vocal opponents of congestion pricing claim

that they're worried about the blue collar workers who have to pay this new

fee but forcing them to waste valuable hours stuck in gridlock traffic burning their

own costly gasoline and being prevented from reaching a job site probably cost them

a lot more than the toll congestion pricing is just a sensible piece of

urban planning policy that people were initially mad about

but then they tried it

and now polls show

that about six out of 10 New York voters

and almost s out of 10 frequent congestion pricing Zone drivers support the policy

apparently this whole pattern of we hate it we try it we love it

happens whenever you do congestion pricing

and remember the number of people driving into the city are a small fraction

of the total number of people coming into Manhattan every day

so maybe paying attention to what drivers think isn't the best strategy video over

the Trump Administration appears to be pulling the plug on congestion pricing okay after

about a month and a half of success Trump activated his right

as king of America to try to stop congestion pricing

but since a tweet is not an official act Trump's Secretary of Transportation sha

Duffy fired off a 3

and A2 Page Letter to tell Governor hokel

that the US government is doing a takes bais of the legal authority to

do congestion pricing can the government do it takes these bais legal experts think

probably not but they also thought you couldn't say you were the king

so who knows the letter in question appears to be Duffy's best attempt at

legally justifying Trump's tweet

but his two arguments almost immediately swerve into the oncoming traffic of reality his

first contention is that the congestion pricing program provides no toll-free option for many

drivers who really want to bring their cars into New York

which would be a really great argument

if there was a law

or a rule or anything

that said you had to provide a free option here's the thing there's just

not that's not a law I'm not even sure what

that is there's no free option for the subway

if you try to jump the Turn Style you can get ticketed

or maybe even shot

and also we already told cars like $14 minimum for a round trip on

these Bridges and these tunnels this is the same thing

as that I don't know what's going on Kramer

so where are we going just a little place I like to call youy

his other argument is

that the revenue generated under the program goes towards the transit system rather than

the highways which yes is correct he goes on to argue

that that wasn't argument

that was the whole argument okay well uh here's the thing I respect your

opinion but you're going to need to make a legal case for this

that cites something other than the Supreme Court Landmark decision of Shawn Duffy versus

I don't like that

but if you try to call this man out on his you might get

something like this is there any indication

that you've seen so far

that Dei practices factored into this accident I again I I'll be I'll be

specific on things that I want to talk about

so Born Again congestion pricing Advocate Governor Kathy hulle had her MTA fireback with

a 61-page lawsuit to take this thing to court

and then jumped on the microphone at a subway platform press conference to take

a few shots of her own

and I have to say this to Secretary of Transportation sha Duffy it's not

the real world Sean it's real life for New Yorkers now

that real world comment might be a little confusing until you learn

that Secretary of Transportation sha Duffy was a cast member on real world Boston

and my God we live in the dumbest timeline don't we people try to

downplay it like it's fake

and you know these emotions

that you feel aren't real

and it's stage and it's like it's the most real experiences it's the most

real experience that I've ever had

that guy is the Secretary of Transportation

but then Governor hok throws Down The Gauntlet with the Trump Administration the cameras

are staying on we are keeping the cameras on lights cameras action they're staying

on last thing I'll say

if in some world

that they are successful the next time you're stuck in traffic the next time

your train is delayed the next time you're in a flooded station

because infrastructure repairs are not made I want you to think of this think

about this next time you're stuck in traffic okay not the pops she was

hoping for you'd really want the crowd to react a little more like this

next time you're stuck in traffic

but you know what good enough the lines have been drawn

and we've gotten some interesting back

and forth between New York

and the Trump Administration already including an official US Department of Transportation video that's

just 26 seconds of absolute dog production featuring five mumbly unidentified men

and more Street noise than dialogue you know what I'm going to play a

clip of it and I swear to you I have not altered this video

in any way it's ridiculous it's it's destroying the city sucks it makes it

more expensive for me to come to work the US government produced this video

and I would say they forgot to use a microphone except you can see

them holding a microphone in this shot

but I'm not trying to say New York completely Nails this new policy since

the point is to keep traffic flowing by pricing the roads based on demand

the best version would let the toll price fluctuate everything else changes price based

on supply and demand congestion pricing could too it just doesn't another issue with

New York system is the entire premise is based on the idea

that the tolls would raise $1 billion per year

that billion dollars would

then pay for bonds

that give the MTA 15 bill ion for Capital Improvements is $15 billion enough

hell no they've been underfunding the transit system for years they need more like

$ 47.8 billion but $15 billion is a great start the thing is

when Governor Kathy hokel paused

and then unpaused congestion pricing she knocked the toll down from $15 to $9

which will reduce the program's projected Revenue to below the intended billion dollars

which will leave them drastically short on the money they needed to fix the

trains so I guess Checkmate trains you've been beaten once again by Chessmaster hok

but the bigger problem of tying the perceived success of congestion pricing to a

subway system that's been a bit of a cluster since forever is

that it gives opponents of the policy a nice cheap talking point congestion pricing

is already working but

if the trains don't look like the Hogwarts expressed by Christmas you can bet

your ass the Ben shapiros

and Shawn Duffy of the world are going to blame

that on congestion pricing

and just to say it the New York City subway kicks ass I love

the subway every day more people take the subway than fly domestically in America

the subway rules sure it's loud

and there are lots of delays

and track failures but by

and large the subway is the only way to travel yeah oh oh o

I love the subway sure there are delays

and Signal failures and one time

when I was in the Bronx somebody jumped onto the tracks

and I saw the EMTs carrying his foot out in a ziplock bag

and that's a true story

that actually happened but generally this thing is incredible

when we shoot episodes of climate town we use the subway to get around

but it could also be

so much better the trains are slow

and often late and a lot of the technology is

so old that the companies

that made it are no longer in business we're talking like Tech from the

1950s and besides having General infrastructure problems

and I'm not sure what that's a puddle of the subway currently serves this

much of New York

which means this much of New York gets left out

and the people who live in these underserved often lower inome neighborhoods with large

immigrant populations have had to organize their own dollar van systems to fill the

chasm left by the MTA focusing congestion pricing money on just the MTA misses

the larger point of the policy

which is to make everyone's life better it's not just about the subway it's

also about blanketing the city in protected bike lanes

and bus Rapid Transit

and pedestrian areas and I don't know those freaky little one-wheel motorcycle things I

don't care let's just get some options

and not to chuff them up too much

but when London did congestion pricing they gave one of those British middle finger

gestures to cars by taking out driving Lanes to make dedicated bike lanes

while also beefing up the bus fleet

and schedule basically they made decisions to maximize London for moving people rather than

cars and according to an analysis from Transportation Economist Charles Koff it worked in

the past 20 years automobiles driving into London's congestion Zone decreased by 48%

but the total number of people coming into Central London increased by 21% we're

talking 137% increase in cycling Bus

and Train increases I mean it's almost enough to get past

that awful British cooking buzzinga

and to the people like sha Duffy who claim to be looking out for

the hardworking Blue Collar American just trying to make ends me it makes it

more expensive for me to come to work to

that argument I guess I would just like to say get the F out

of here I mean we can just look at the numbers these staggering majority

of people who are coming into New York are not driving they're taking the

Subways and buses and trains

and bikes just 20% of people traveling to

or through the congestion Zone in a vehicle are subject to the toll

and if you're worried about lower income New Yorkers coming into Manhattan let's get

into it just 2% of poorer outer burough commuters regularly drive to Manhattan for

work 2% when there's a kind of milk that's the same percentage

as the people you say you're worried about your argument might have structural problems

if you're really worried about poor outer burrow commuters maybe take a second to

consider the 25 % of

that same group that gets into Manhattan using the MTA the thing

that will get better funding from congestion pricing

and if you're still hoping to be worried about outer burrow drivers you might

be worried about the high income residents yeah the median income of car owners

in the outer buroughs is $94,000

while non-car owners have a median income of less than half of

that we're not all statisticians

but let's take a second to try to find the trend here

as of right now for me not you you're in the future you space

man I'm in the right now

and right now New York's toll cameras are still on the cars are still

moving faster and the system is still collecting millions of dollars every month for

public transportation and even

if New York decided to take all

that money put it in a big pile

and light it on fire congestion pricing would still be a net positive

because reducing traffic comes with a whole bunch of other co- benefits including increasing

the speeds of buses

and decreasing emissions and all of this is a really great first step in

clawing back some of the ground

that cars have taken from cities our roads are a finite

and precious public resource

and cars are massive lethal hunks of metal

that have been grandfathered into privilege for

so long that any attempt to correct this is met with a hysterical cry

that there's a war on cars not to be confused with the urbanism pod

the war on cars

which is actually an excellent podcast you should totally check it out it's also

good to remember that a lot of people live in these hi trffic areas

almost all the talk is focused on the commuters

but a ton of people will benefit from less exhaust pouring out into their

neighborhoods they'll also appreciate better bike lanes

and safer crosswalks and a bunch of other improvements

that we can actually make

when we deprioritize trying to pack everyone else's personal vehicle into their front yard

and this kind of is possible in Paris people are living entire lives on

the streets getting blasted on Bordeaux

or talking about scarves

or whatever and they're not alone a bunch of other cities around the world

also do this have they all lost their minds no they're just considering people

a little bit more in New York we got a taste of this during

the pandemic when restaurants slapped together a bunch of sheds made of plywood

and 2x4s and delicately crammed a bunch of extra customers right next to the

curb it was awesome until they ripped them all out to make more beds

for our most cherished residents you settled down

and you built a town made there it's like it was bathed by Angels

anybody know the kill of a hiccups by the way the cars Universe gets

really crazy when you start asking questions the internet is full of fun conspiracy

theories about this one might assume

that this takes place in an alternate reality where the cars just built everything

but they have sidewalks on on their streets this world was built by humans

and then at some point cars gained sentience wiped out humanity

and are now living their lives cosplaying

as the people they murdered

and the rabbit hole goes way deeper than

that they have a car Pope sounds fun he rides in a little Pope

car that's great but it also means they have a car Catholicism

and that at some point they crucified a car Jesus on a car cross

also there are planes

that remember car world World War II

which has some pretty interesting implications for who led the car World War II

German army they also have to take their tires off

when they go through airport security

which means their tires are their shoes not their feet

which means there's probably car terrorism

and then there's the question of how these cars are alive

but please don't Google it cuz

if you do you'll get something like this

so at this point you might be wondering what can I do about this

not this the movie Cars this the real world not the show The Real

World the actual world that's dominated by cars what can I do about

that well if you live in New York you might be tempted to think

that there's nothing left to do

because congestion pricing is already in full swing

but unfortunately it seems like there's going to be a battle to keep it

that way so we teamed up with our friends over at climate change makers

to make a New York focused Playbook to help you tell Kathy hokel how

much you love congestion pricing maybe it's an email maybe it's a phone call

honestly it's probably one of those two

but whether she likes it

or not she's the current leader of congestion pricing in the US

and we want to let her know

that we think that's very good

and smart here's the thing

if you don't live in New York do not email

or call Cathy hok I literally just learned this the other day

but apparently they find

that very annoying and they almost always ignore anything

that isn't directly from their constituency what you can do is send an email

or call to your representative I'd imagine cars play a substantial role in your

area as well and there are lots of urbanist policies to Deep prioritize car

Centric infrastructure that you can chat with your reps about

and as long as you're poking around the internet why not go follow some

of the experts that we talked to in making this very video I'm talking

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and Sarah goody year we got links down below they are all excellent advocates

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that isn't completely dominated by cars might I suggest great cities from the PowerHouse

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and my personal favorite is a deep dive into the history of Central Park

Not only was it one of the main filming locations for this very video

but it's also one of my favorite places to be in New York

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insane it is that in the middle of some of the most expensive real

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