New Jersey's reaction to NY congestion pricing has turned into a pure test of home-state political strength, divorced from the merits of the issue. Like rooting for the local sports team.
It's like what you see in fights over siting nuclear waste facilities. 1/2
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Example: In the 1980s, USDOE was looking at possible disposal sites for high-level waste in SE Utah & a site for low-level waste in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Enviros & pols in Santa Fe fought the Carlsbad site; those in Salt Lake fought the SE Utah sites.
Santa Fe is closer to the SE Utah sites than it is to Carlsbad. Yet no one in Santa Fe cared in the least about the Utah sites. 2/2
Epilogue: Once the Carlsbad site opened in 1999, Santa Fe pols lost interest in it.
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