In August 2022, the MTA completed a long-awaited environmental review of the idea, and laid out seven hypothetical tolling schemes and how they would affect traffic and revenue for the beleaguered transit agency.īut the idea has a ways to go before it hits the streets. The Biden administration is behind the plan, too. Kathy Hochul, has signaled her full support for the idea - despite waffling on the idea earlier on the campaign trail - and so has Mayor Eric Adams.

A bill from Albany gave New York’s plan the green light in 2019, but a lack of action by the Federal Highway Administration under then-President Donald Trump delayed the program.Īs traffic surges again, a critical player for the concept, Gov. The idea was born in New York, then adopted in several overseas cities, but has never been tried anywhere in the United States. Now, as people and traffic slowly return to Manhattan’s center and climate change keeps punching the city in the gut, the push for so-called congestion pricing - to help reduce traffic-related emissions and raise money for mass transit - is gathering steam in earnest. For decades, New York leaders have played with the idea of tolling car traffic in the city’s central core.

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