Manhattan Congestion Pricing

Judge Lewis J. Liman of the Southern District of New York has been busy lately, deciding cases about the new Congestion Pricing toll that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has…

Even though the Congestion Pricing toll now being collected when vehicles enter the CRZ (Congestion Relief Zone) south of 60th Street in Manhattan is a local initiative, few topics on…

The Congestion Pricing toll for vehicles entering Manhattan below 60th Street has won another victory in court. Last year saw numerous litigations in New York and New Jersey by elected…

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It was strange to see in Railway Age an attack on New York City’s congestion pricing plan, “More Fun Times and Unintended Consequences Ahead?” by Financial Editor David Nahass. He dismissed…

The future of the controversial Congestion Pricing toll for vehicles entering the downtown and Midtown areas of Manhattan is in court once again. After nearly a dozen cases filed in…

It was strange to see in Railway Age an attack on New York City’s congestion pricing plan, “More Fun Times and Unintended Consequences Ahead?” by Financial Editor David Nahass. He dismissed…

On Jan. 4, the last of what started as nearly a dozen court battles over Congestion Pricing in Manhattan seemed essentially over. There were still a few issues to be…

On the 46th day since the congestion toll for vehicles entering the portion of Manhattan south of 60th Street went into effect, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took the first…

It has now been 30 days since the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority (TBTA) started collecting Congestion Pricing tolls on vehicles that enter Manhattan south of 60th Street for the…

On Sunday morning, Dec. 6, WNYC transportation reporter Stephen Nessen reported on a group of motorists who were poised at a toll collection point at midnight as Saturday turned into…

As reported in Part 18 of this series, it appeared that the TBTA (Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority) would start collecting congestion pricing tolls on Jan. 5 and sending the…

Congestion Pricing, the controversial plan to charge tolls for vehicles entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, came a step closer to implementation when two federal judges from the Southern District…

After “pausing” the implementation of a proposed Congestion Toll for vehicles entering the zone south of 60th Street in Manhattan on June 5, Gov. Kathy Hochul has again recommended that…

This past summer, we reported in depth about the “fiscal cliff” that now confronts essentially the entire transit industry in the United States, due to the one-shot nature of COVID-19…

Throughout the spring, we reported on the slow but steady progress of the proposal to charge tolls for most vehicles entering the Central Business District of Manhattan, defined as the…

Last June, when New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered a “pause” on the proposed congestion toll for vehicles entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, it appeared that the court cases…

Until the middle of June, we had covered the controversy over the proposed congestion toll for vehicles entering Manhattan south of 60th Street in detail. Officials in both New York…

Times look bleak for many transit providers at this writing. Reports both for the trade and in popular media have spread the word that transit is in trouble. The federal…

We are still waiting for Judge Leo M. Gordon to decide the case filed by the State of New Jersey and other plaintiffs who oppose the Congestion Pricing proposal, which…