$15 Toll If You Drive To Manhattan and Midtown
NYC, New York: The November preliminary draft report from the Traffic Mobility Review Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority states that drivers entering Midtown below 60th Street will be charged a $15 toll.
Though some Lower Hudson Valley officials were still incensed, earlier estimates placed the Midtown death toll at roughly $23. The lack of a toll credit for motorists who cross the George Washington Bridge to reach Manhattan is a major point of disagreement.
There would be a $5 daytime toll credit for the drivers using the Hugh Carey, Lincoln and Holland, and Queens-Midtown tunnels.
Relative to the Cuomo Bridge crossing at the Tappan Zed, the discount discussion has been limited to crossings that connect directly to Manhattan.
Other details from the draft report are listed below-
- A $7.50 toll would apply to motorcycles.
- Depending on their size, trucks entering the congestion zone would pay a toll of $24 or $36.
- Taxis and cars for hire would charge $1.25 and $2.50 per trip, respectively.
- Following the first ten trips made by that vehicle in a calendar month, low-income vehicle owners who meet the requirements may be eligible for a 50% discount on the daytime auto toll.
- Vehicles would only be billed tolls upon entering the zone—not upon exiting it.
- Vehicles bearing commercial license plates, motorcycles, and passenger cars would only be billed once every day.
- Overnight, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., tolls would be reduced by 75%.
- Tolls will be collected via cashless tolling, which uses overhead gantries to read E-ZPass transponders.
Congestion pricing has been opposed and the draught plan has been criticized by U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican whose district includes all of Rockland and Putnam counties as well as a portion of Westchester and Dutchess. A certain amount of congestion pricing has the support of Governor Kathy Hochul.
