More Suburbs Join Opposition to Congestion Pricing as Alarm Spreads Over a New Tax on America
City plans to push pollution onto suburbs in a scheme to raise money, supposedly to cover $2.5 billion deficits being run up by failing subways.
Suburbanites coast to coast are watching to see if New York City’s congestion pricing toll paves the way for increased burdens on them, too. As new voices rise up to oppose the first-in-the-nation plan, their argument echoes in bedroom communities everywhere residents must drive to survive.
New York plans to start charging motorists entering south of 60th Street — Manhattan’s central business district — by midyear. The cost will be $15 for passenger vehicles, $7.50 for motorcycles, and $24 to $36 for trucks. Toll infrastructure is already under construction.
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