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New York could start charging drivers $15 to enter Manhattan as soon as mid-June, a lawyer for the state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority told a judge at a hearing on New Jersey’s lawsuit to block the plan.

The MTA may decide on the final tolling structure by the end of March, attorney Mark Chertok told Judge Leo Gordon during a status conference Tuesday in Newark. That would lead to several further steps in the approval process. The toll, to be imposed on motorists driving into Manhattan’s central business district, would be the first of its kind in the US.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Think they could use the fees to subsidize public transit in and out of the city? I'd imagine most of the car traffic is people entering Manhattan from out of NYC or leaving it, so it would be nice if they further incentivized that by making the PATH, LIRR or NJT cheaper, but that may be interstate commerce.

I generally support this, but I think Murphy's comments are sensible here, though, maybe not the lawsuit that's causing issues.

The MTA would give a credit to drivers paying tolls for the Lincoln, Holland and Queens-Midtown tunnels and the Hugh L. Carey bypass to the financial district from Brooklyn, also known as the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel.

So, would people taking one of these have their toll applied to the congestion fee? I'm a little unclear on that. The GW isn't listed there, but I suppose that's sensible since it drops ya out north of 60th.

[–] FeliXTV27@feddit.ch 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure making transit cheaper is the right thing to do when the money would better be spent on making the service more attractive, iirc PATH could use much higher frequencies.

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