A megacity with incredible car and truck traffic, New York is expected to install the first urban toll at the entrance to an American city in June, a controversial project but intended to reduce traffic jams and pollution and above all to boost the finances of the metro.
The toll is scheduled for mid-June
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New York by subway with the writer Douglas Kennedy
Its CEO Janno Lieber congratulated himself in a press release “of one of the most important votes of the council” by assuring that “MTA was ready“. “One of the major objectives is to finally tackle traffic jams, but also, at the other end of the chain, to invest more in the network of transport in common“, he recalled.
MTA, which suffered a collapse in its ridership during the pandemic, hopes to reap a windfall of a billion dollars per year. If the federal state agrees and if administrative appeals from the neighboring state of New Jersey or taxis and VTCs do not block the project, in mid-June New York will be the first city in the United States to provide such a toll.
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Cars and vans entering from 60th Street in Manhattan and south from Queens and Brooklyn (across the East River) or from New Jersey (across the Hudson River) ) will have to pay 15 dollars during the day and 3.75 dollars at night. Trucks and coaches will have to pay $24 to $36, while the famous yellow taxis will be able to add $1.25 to each trip, MTA said. Emergency vehicles will be exempt and low-income drivers, in a city with high inequality and hit by inflation, will be entitled to discounts.
The project dates back to 2007 when billionaire Michael Bloomberg was mayor. But the principle was only enacted in 2019 under the very left-wing former mayor Bill de Blasio, predecessor of Eric Adams, a center-right ex-police officer. The municipality is trying policies deemed progressive, social and environmental and New York City is already surrounded by tolls on the expressways, bridges and tunnels serving its large suburbs.
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2024-03-29 16:53:00
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