Three proposed alternatives to the mayor’s congestion-pricing plan won’t ease the city’s traffic woes, according to a study released yesterday.
“Some of them can do some things to some degree, but certainly not as much as [Mayor] Bloomberg’s plan,” said Jeffrey Zupan, who led the study for the Regional Plan Association, a private research group.
License-plate rationing could be evaded by families with multiple cars, tax incentives for night deliveries would only divert 1 percent of traffic, and improved traffic flow would not cut the number of vehicles entering Midtown, the report found.