NEW YORK — The MTA board on Monday fast-tracked Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to to finance mass transit with congestion pricing, rubber-stamping her plan to charge drivers a fee to enter Manhattan’s Central Business District.
The board voted to pass the plan with the new base toll of $9 to enter below 60th Street. Scheduled to begin in early January, the plan is designed to to provide $15 billion in funding for signal modernization, accessibility improvement, the expansion of the Second Avenue Subway line, and more projects. It is the first tolling plan on its kind in the nation.
As CBS News New York’s Marcia Kramer reports, there are plans in place to raise the toll twice in the next six years.
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