Gov. Kathy Hochul's indefinite pause on congestion pricing raises a $500 million question: What happens now to all those tolling cameras?
Anticipating it could begin its first-in-the-nation central business district tolling program on June 30, the MTA installed dozens of cameras and overhead gantries at ports of entry to Manhattan south of 60th Street, which are capable of reading license plates or E-ZPass transponders.
The cameras were already set to be used to measure traffic volumes in Manhattan’s core and compare the difference pre- and post-congestion pricing; the MTA did not immediately say whether that study has started or its future status. TransCore deferred comment back to the MTA. “We have all of these different proxies of data coming in and out of transportation flow,” said Hidalgo. “If we’re really trying to manage something that is seemingly unmeasurable, the cameras should be turned on immediately. The cameras should be used to start aggregating what is the throughput of vehicles coming into the city.”Others, though, see a more nefarious potential utilization for the cameras: spying.
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