Perspective
Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers
NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.
License-plate-scanning cameras over First Avenue enforce New York City’s year-old congestion pricing program.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergAlong with upgrading transit service, a top goal of New York City’s congestion pricing program has been untangling gridlock within Manhattan’s central business district.
“The project’s purpose is to reduce traffic congestion in the Manhattan CBD,” MTA official Allison de Cerreño declared in 2022, more than two years before most drivers began paying $9 to enter parts of the island during peak hours.