Congestion pricing is transferring full velocity forward.
The Federal Freeway Administration OK’d the ultimate bureaucratic step Thursday for the revamped program to gather $9 tolls for vehicles getting into Manhattan beneath sixtieth Avenue beginning Jan. 5.
The settlement provides the MTA permission to gather congestion tolls below the feds’ worth pricing pilot program.
The federal sign-off comes after Gov. Kathy Hochul and MTA officers resurrected congestion pricing from its months-long “pause.”
The brand new plan will decrease the bottom toll from $15 to $9, at the least to start out.
Tolls will improve to $12 in 2028 earlier than reaching the complete $15 by 2031.
However the hated toll program’s future stays unsure, because it faces lawsuits, intense opposition from many native lawmakers and a president-elect Trump who has promised to “TERMINATE” it throughout his first week within the White Home.
