A new report finds that various proposals to replace the mass transit money lost from pausing congestion pricing either don’t raise the same revenue or fail to achieve other benefits—such as reduced traffic—from the Manhattan toll.
The report by the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC), the transit authority’s in-house rider advocacy group, examined eight proposals that have been floated from various parties to replace the $15 billion congestion pricing was to generate for the MTA’s capital program, which is now on ice following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision in June to “pause” the Manhattan tolling scheme.
