A six-member board held its second public meeting to decide who'll have to pay a new Manhattan congestion pricing toll, and who gets a break.
Nearly everyone in the New York City region wants a break on a new congestion pricing toll set to take effect in Manhattan next year, but the cost of those exemptions adds up.
The board is tasked with figuring out not only what groups — like low-income residents or New Jersey commuters — should receive carve outs. “We’ve said from the very beginning, we want to keep the base toll as low as we possibly can,” Carl Weisbrod, chair of the Traffic Mobility Review Board and a former director of New York City’s Department of City Planning, told reporters after the panel met on Thursday. “And that means that the fewer special cases, the fewer exemptions, the fewer possibilities that are going to raise the toll for everybody. So our goal is to be as fair as possible.
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