The Federal Highway Administration’s has given final approval for the MTA’s congestion pricing program, even though Gov. Kathy Hochul has put the plan on pause just weeks before it was due to be activated on June 30.
Hochul stopped the plan to ease the economic costs to drivers.
Federal Highway Administration approves congestion pricing
FILE - Traffic enters lower Manhattan after crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in New York. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 indefinitely delayed implementation of a plan to charge motorists big tolls to enter the core of Manhattan, just weeks before the nation's first “congestion pricing” system was set to launch. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)