The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new congestion pricing plan for Manhattan will officially go into effect on June 30, the agency said Friday, though legal and political clashes still threaten to hamper or stop it altogether.
“Five years after the legislature made congestion pricing New York State law, and with 4,000 pages of analysis, hundreds of hearings and outreach meetings behind us, New Yorkers are ready for the benefits — less traffic, cleaner air, safer streets and better transit,” MTA chair Janno Lieber said in a statement.
The plan, aimed at easing some of the worst traffic in the nation, will charge passenger cars $15 a day to enter a congestion zone below 61st Street in Manhattan during peak period and $3.75 overnight. Vehicles would only be charged once a day.
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