NYC’s First-In-Nation Congestion Pricing Tolls Begin

January 5, 2025 New York City, Travel

Gothamist reports:

New York City’s congestion pricing tolls turned on just after midnight on Sunday, marking the end of a decades-long saga to charge motorists to drive in the busiest parts of Manhattan.

The tolls, which impose a base daytime fee of $9 of vehicles entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, mark the first program in the United States to charge drivers to enter a city’s central business district and use the proceeds to finance mass transit upgrades.

The charges, which drop to $2.25 during overnight hours, went live just after midnight Sunday morning. The launch was met with cheers from transit advocates who support the imitative and boos from drivers who see it as just another tax.

The New York Times reports: 

The New York program is being closely followed by officials and advocates in other U.S. cities who are grappling with their own traffic problems in a country where the car is king. Several cities, including Washington and San Francisco, explored the concept before the coronavirus pandemic interrupted those efforts.

Congestion pricing is being introduced at a time when New York City’s streets are more clogged than ever. From Fifth Avenue to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, traffic has rebounded sharply after largely disappearing during the depths of the pandemic.

The city’s traffic is now so thick that New York was named the world’s most congested city in a 2023 traffic scorecard compiled by the transportation data analytics firm INRIX, beating out London, Paris and Mexico City.

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