Federal Highway Administration gives blessing $9 daily toll via “obscure value pricing” program By Stephen Nessen Nov 22, 2024 — Gothamist The MTA’s congestion pricing plan just got the green light. The Federal Highway Administration has given its blessing to the Manhattan tolling program, which Gov. Kathy Hochul revived earlier this month with a...
Tolling vehicles to pay for mass transit upgrades Wednesday hearing follows lawsuit over city’s tolling plan New Jersey blasts environment review, seeks deeper assessment April 3, 2024 Bloomberglaw.com Lawyers for New Jersey mounted a last-ditch effort to derail a New York program to charge most drivers $15 to enter central Manhattan during peak hours, urging...
First in the nation zone tolling program BYCEDAR ATTANASIO AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 27, 2024 Fortune Magazine New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its downtown after transit officials approved a $15 fee for most motorists headed into part of Manhattan. Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board...
‘You are not eliminating pollution’ Wednesday, April 3, 2024 WABC News NEW YORK — A federal judge in Newark heard oral arguments Wednesday in the State of New Jersey’s lawsuit over New York’s first-in-the-nation congestion pricing. The lawsuit is one of several seeking to stop the new $15 toll for passenger cars driving into the heart...
First in the nation zone tolling program By Nolan Hicks, Griffin Eckstein and Emily Crane March 27, 2024, NY Post Motorists will soon officially be slapped with a back-breaking $15 toll to drive on some of Manhattan’s busiest streets after the MTA’s board voted Wednesday to set New York’s controversial congestion pricing in stone. The new tolls, likely to...
$1 billion per year money grab By Marcia Kramer , Jessica Moore March 27, 2024 / CBS New York NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board on Wednesday approved congestion pricing fees in what its chairman said was one of the most significant votes the board had ever undertaken. Emotions ran high at the board meeting. A mix of people pleaded for mercy in...
Class Action lawsuit part of pushback against NYC zone tolls By Vaughn Golden, NY Post Published Feb. 18, 2024 Hudson Valley commuters ripped into the MTA’s congestion toll in a town hall in Ulster County Saturday, begging the Big Apple and Albany to put the controversial pricing plan on-hold. The event was sponsored by battleground congressional...
“Transit deserts” force people to use cars in New York By Joe Borelli, NY Post Published Feb. 14, 2024 Turn on the news, and you are bound to hear any one of a number of congestion pricing’s most sycophantic promoters telling us we must look to our sister city across the pond to see the fruits of its...
Zone tolling reduces business traffic in London as NYC businesses worry Story by Nolan Hicks, Jack Morphet, NY Post Feb 11, 2024 Some shops and eateries in central London saw their receipts drop 5% when the British capital rolled out its congestion pricing program — which the Big Apple’s controversial planned $15 daily toll is...
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