NYC’s Congestion Pricing Board Eyes Discounts for Tunnel Drivers

  • New tolling plan may include a tunnel credit of as much as $7
  • Board favors charging congestion fee when entering the zone
Vehicles approach the Lincoln Tunnel in Weehawken, New Jersey.Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Motorists paying a tunnel toll into Manhattan may get a break on the city’s new congestion pricing fee.

New York City is inching closer to implementing the congestion charge to drive into Manhattan’s central business district. Yet drivers who already pay a fee on four tunnels going into the island may get a discount of as much as $7 off the new toll.