NYC Is Getting Somewhere With Congestion Pricing
A delayed plan, with lower tolls, can still make its expected impact. Plus: What happens when a charm shop goes viral.
Sitting in Manhattan traffic already costs drivers patience. Now it’ll hit their wallets as well.
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A plan to charge drivers for traveling through the most traffic-clogged parts of Manhattan moved forward last week. Laura Bliss writes about the cautious optimism that it’ll meet its goals. Plus: The latest in our Going Viral series, and a story about asylum courts you might’ve missed. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up .
When New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the revival of congestion pricing this month, environmentalists and transportation advocates gave a cautious cheer. At long last, the city that invented the term “gridlock” would finally get its key, with a decades-in-the-making system to toll drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street, one of the most traffic-jammed places in the world. Hochul’s $9-a-car plan, a revision of the $15 version she halted earlier, is expected to start in January—if it can survive the legal and political minefield of the coming months.