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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