A plurality of NYC residents need congestion pricing to remain because the Trump administration strikes to finish the toll, based on a Siena Faculty ballot launched Monday.
The ballot, which surveyed New York Metropolis registered voters, discovered that 42% mentioned they wished the toll — which prices most drivers $9 a day to drive on floor streets in Midtown and decrease Manhattan — to stay in place. In contrast, 35% mentioned they wished the toll eliminated.
The remaining 23% mentioned they had been both “in the middle” or didn’t understand how they felt concerning the toll.
That displays a extra optimistic angle on the toll than a Quinnipiac College ballot taken on the finish of February, which confirmed 41% of metropolis voters supported the ballot whereas 54% opposed it.
Statewide, New Yorkers questioned final week as a part of Monday’s Siena ballot had been cooler on the toll, which is supposed to each scale back vehicular congestion and enhance public transit primarily inside the 5 boroughs.
Suburban respondents had been most strongly towards the toll, with 48% in favor of its elimination and 30% saying it ought to keep in place. Upstate voters rejected the toll by 40% to 25%.
Congestion pricing indicators on Park Ave. trying south in Manhattan. (Barry Williams / New York Every day Information)
The polling comes lower than two weeks earlier than an arbitrary March 21 deadline set by the Trump administration for ending this system, which was accredited by federal regulators final 12 months and went into impact in January.
Gov. Hochul has vowed to struggle the federal order to finish congestion pricing, calling it a part of an “existential threat” to public transit from the Trump regime in a speech to the MTA’s board final month.
The MTA for its half has mentioned the tolling system will stay absent a courtroom order. The transit company has sued Trump’s DOT in federal courtroom, calling the transfer to renege federal approval of the toll and finish a program mandated by state legislation unconstitutional.
Siena pollsters didn’t ask New Yorkers their opinion on Trump’s transfer to finish the toll. Forty-nine p.c of final month’s Quinnipiac respondents, nonetheless, expressed disapproval of Trump’s order to finish the toll, with 45% approving of the legally doubtful transfer.
