The Biden administration still has no firm timeline on congestion pricing, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Thursday, forecasting further delays for the program four years after it was approved by Albany.
Congestion pricing — which will levy charges on motorists entering Manhattan below 60th Street, with the aim of reducing car traffic in the region’s central business district and providing billions in funding for mass transit — was approved by state lawmakers in 2019 but has been mired in delays, as state and federal regulators toil in environmental review and interest groupsApproval by the Federal Highway Administration is the final roadblock to clear by the Metropolitan Transportation...
“We’re talking about something that is really new in terms of scope and scale, relative to processing environmental reviews on something that we maybe do hundreds of in a year, like a bridge project for example,” said Buttigieg, formerly the mayor of South Bend, Indiana and a Democratic presidential candidate. “But certainly, the Federal Highway Administration is working hard on that process.
While New York’s program would be the first in the United States, the concept is not new internationally. Cities like London, Milan, Stockholm, and Singapore all have a similar program in place. In London, the program was first formally proposed by Ken Livingstone during his 2000 campaign for mayor, and by 2003 it had been implemented.
The MTA originally intended for tolls to be in place by 2021, but the lofty ambitions were scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of interest from the Trump administration. Last summer, the transit authority released its
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