NYC, congestion pricing

‘Running there’: NYC starts congestion pricing. Then Shake Shack does this in response
In an effort to make NYC less chaotic by minimizing traffic, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has added a new toll. This new toll is being called congestion pricing and is projected to significantly minimize traffic in Manhattan’s business district. Drivers will be charged the toll when entering below 60th Street in Manhattan.
Meet the brothers who built NYC’s favorite congestion pricing tracking tool
Now that New York City has finally flipped the switch on congestion pricing, the big question is: Will it work? And if so, how well?
Congestion Pricing Has Eased NYC Traffic. Not Everyone Is Happy.
The introduction of a $9 congestion fee has resulted in faster speeds on some of the city’s famously snarled streets and fewer commuters on the bridges and tunnels. “The traffic is absolutely less, even during rush hour,
Congestion Pricing: Transforming NYC And Urban Mobility Nationwide
NYC’s congestion pricing cuts traffic, emissions, and funds transit. Paired with Europe’s low-emission zones, it’s a blueprint for sustainable, livable cities.
Nation's 1st congestion pricing 'working,' preliminary data shows: MTA
Preliminary data from the first week of New York City's highly debated congestion pricing program shows the country's first plan of its kind is working, officials said.
Less Traffic, Faster Buses: Congestion Pricing’s First Week
Early data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suggests that traffic has dropped around Manhattan’s core.
1st week of congestion pricing made commuting to NYC faster, the MTA says
With the first week of New York’s Congestion Pricing toll in the books, commuters are reaping a reward, spending less time in traffic in exchange for their $9 toll to enter lower Manhattan, said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
‘Picking the pockets of families:’ Lawmakers seek to curb N.Y.C.’s congestion pricing
Three federal lawmakers are pushing back on the new congestion pricing fee to enter Lower Manhattan by proposed three laws to ...
Legal tab for New Jersey’s fight against congestion pricing tops $1.1M
The state alleges in court that federal regulators failed to properly consider the environmental impacts congestion pricing ...
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Is congestion pricing working? What MTA report tells us about Manhattan toll’s first week
Traffic entering Manhattan below 60th Street dropped by 7.5% in the first week after the start of a controversial $9 toll on ...
Naive to think congestion pricing will deter NYC-bound drivers; Kudos for highlighting religious creativity | Letters
"Much like taxes on cigarettes, which have done little to extinguish the habit but have generated revenue for related ...
US foes Iran, Russia, other UN diplomats exempt from NYC congestion pricing as taxpayers forced to foot bill
The U.S. State Department has exempted U.N. diplomats and missions in New York City from paying new congestion fees according ...
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Congestion pricing happened in New York City—is Boston next? Massachusetts planners, politicians, and economists weigh in
Boston has notoriously bad traffic, but does it have to be that way? Economists, planners, transit advocates, and politicians in Massachusetts are closely monitoring what’s happening in New York, now ...
Congestion pricing on I-95? No thanks.
Jim Cameron’s columns on transportation issues in the CTMirror are lucid and informative, but his recent article advocating ...
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Think you owe a congestion pricing fine? Scammers may be behind it
As New York City's congestion pricing program takes effect, scammers are using phishing schemes to exploit drivers, posing as ...