Video captured a New York City commuter bus dangling on the edge of an overpass in the Bronx on Friday morning after the driver collided with a stone wall.
The MTA released a report Monday showing traffic heading into New York City was down a week after the new congestion pricing plan went into effect.
New York's MTA is claiming that, after only one week, the "congestion parking" initiative implemented is "working"
The first congestion pricing plan in the U.S. has begun, charging most drivers $9 a day to enter the lower half of Manhattan. The long-debated plan is projected to raise up to $800 million a year for the city's aging public transit system.
The scheme aims to ease New York's notorious traffic problems and raise billions for the public transport network. Most drivers are charged $9 once per day to enter the congestion zone at peak hours, and $2.25 at other times.
New York’s new toll for drivers entering the center of Manhattan means many people will pay $9 to access the busiest part of the Big Apple during peak hours. The toll is meant to reduce traffic gridlock in the city and raise money to fix its ailing public transit infrastructure. (AP Video: David R. Martin / Jan. 6, 2025)
Traffic on New York City’s busiest streets dropped by 7.5% and morning travel times fell on most major crossings into Manhattan during the first work week of the city’s congestion pricing plan.
After years of delays, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Sunday launched the new toll on traffic entering southern Manhattan.
NEW YORK (AP) — A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City’s heavily-gridlocked streets in its first week of operation, according to preliminary data released Monday by the state’s transit authority.
New Jersey lost the lawsuit, allowing congestion pricing to go ahead without any revenue sharing, the New York Times reported. The state’s lawyers also intended to appeal the federal court’s decision. Fulop, who’s running for Murphy’s job, wants to force the Empire State back into discussions. He told WNYW:
who heads the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York's sprawling subway, bus and commuter rail systems. "We're wasting a ton of money, literally billions of dollars ...