The MTA board is expected to meet today to vote on the revived congestion pricing plan that the governor announced late last week would return on January 5th. After temporarily shelving it in June just before it was about to start, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Thursday it’ll cost $9 instead of the proposed $15 to drive into the city below 60th street. Rockland County Executive Ed Day calls the plan outright theft from west-of-Hudson commuters…
State law requires that congestion pricing raise money for the MTA and decrease traffic and pollution. Many area officials have vowed to fight the plan with the hope of it being scrapped altogether.