The MTA will provide tolling discounts to some low-income drivers, cap daily tolls for taxis, and invest more than $200 million to mitigate localized increases in traffic and air pollution under an agreement with the federal government allowing it to implement congestion pricing, the agency announced on Friday.
The agency’s newly-released final environmental assessment addresses various problems the feds had with its draft version released last August, with those efforts crucial to the Federal Highway Administration’s effectively giving the program — which will assess tolls on vehicles entering Manhattan below 60th Street and send the revenue to the MTA to bolster its aging infrastructure — the green light last week.
