NYC Mayor Wants Exemptions To Congestion Pricing

Gothamist reports:

The MTA board is set to vote on the toll structure for congestion pricing on Wednesday – and now Mayor Eric Adams is ready to pump the brakes. Last week, an MTA advisory panel recommended a $15 base fare for the landmark plan to toll drivers entering Manhattan south of 60th Street. “Now is time to hear from community, to deliberate and to make the determination of who is going to be exempted, who’s not going to be exempted,” Adams said.

His remark came four-and-a-half years after congestion pricing was signed into law, and four months after the first in a series of marathon public hearings on the program that featured remarks from Adams’ own Department of Transportation. A key subject of the hearings was who should be exempt from the tolls. Political observers said Adams was attempting to distance himself from the inevitable backlash over the cost.

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