NYC Congestion Pricing Triggers Hustle for Discounts, Exemptions
- We already pay tolls, suburbs say. Shouldn’t that be enough?
- Boston, Los Angeles may follow Manhattan’s lead to clear roads
Photographer: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
This article is for subscribers only.
Commercial truckers want out of New York City’s first-in-the-nation congestion pricing. So do advocates for the disabled, taxi drivers and swaths of the suburbs.
Whether they’ll win hinges on a battle of wills belonging to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and a yet-to-be-named six-member panel that will decide who pays what in a bid to raise $15 billion to fix the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s subway, train, bus, bridge and tunnel system. Hours after the state legislature and Cuomo backed the plan, part of the $175 billion fiscal 2020 state budget, drivers’ cries of “Unfair!” were near-deafening.