The state's planned congestion pricing toll for drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street won't bring in enough revenue to fund needed upgrades for the MTA's aging mass transit system, charged a former head of the agency and state leader.
amNY Sports email newsletterThe state’s planned congestion pricing toll for drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street won’t bring in enough revenue to fund needed upgrades for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s aging mass transit system, charged a former head of the agency and state leader.
“I believe the congestion pricing is going to be eviscerated,” Ravitch said Sept. 8 at a meeting with the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee, the MTA’s in-house rider advocacy arm. The former second-in-command of New York State called on MTA chief Janno Lieber and Governor Kathy Hochul to lobby lawmakers in Albany to create a new state funding stream for the agency.
The elder statesman worried that scofflaws dodging the congestion fee and officials carving out too many exemptions could cost the agency.