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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xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 2y
I appreciate this... but I do also wish it was wealth or car model scaled.
vividspecter@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
There's a discount for low income residents from what I recall (although I believe it's small). I agree that SUVs and pickup trucks should be hit harder, but perhaps that can be added down the line.
EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/nyregion/tolls-congestion-pricing-nyc.html
And:
On the car model point, perhaps SUVs and pickup trucks could be pushed into the "small truck" category, raising the fee to $24. These "cars" exist due to dodging the efficiency standards that apply to normal cars, so they should be treated as the light trucks that they actually are.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 9 pts · 2y
Disagree. I see where you're coming from, but make it flat fee, and give lower income cheaper metro passes. Make it stupid easy and cheap for them to transit into the city.
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
I wish it were a straight ban and while I appreciate the desire to make it progressive, the fact is in the most well-connected city in the US, the goal isn't to generate revenue from this, it is to reduce the amount of cars, and that includes poor people in non-suvs.
fpslem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
There are some income thresholds that cap fees, and the charge is lower for passenger vehicles than commercial vehicles. It's not perfect, and I'd like to see higher fees for pickup trucks and SUVs, but there are some fee tiers.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y
FeliXTV27@feddit.ch · 3 pts · 2y
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.
Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
No toll credits for the GWB, and the credit on other crossings is limited to $5 off the the daytime toll of $15, no credit during nights and weekends because the toll drops to $3.75 at those times.
ETA - my prices are ezpass discounted ones
Link to MTA info page
Direct Link to Price Chart P1 EZPass P2 “Other Rates” (TollsByMail)
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
When the idea first came up with Bloomberg, it was gonna be an $8 toll and a full toll credit for the then about $4 and change toll (ezpass price, $6 cash) while using ezpass. Immediately after that plan came out the Port Authority (which runs Holland and Lincoln) immediately raised their ezpass price for the tunnels to $8. For a time I believe all toll credits were taken off the table because of what the PA did 15 years ago, and toll credits have been very contentious since.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Too bad they only set these up in wealthy areas.