A six-member Traffic Mobility Review Board would be tasked with advising on toll structure. The 2019 law stipulated that the board of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority would determine the charges and exemptions, credits, or discounts for any group of drivers, including taxis and ride-hailing vehicles. However, politically difficult decisions will have to be made before tolls to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street can be installed.
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“But I would say the recent decision to require only an assessment is a good sign that they won’t then require a full environmental impact statement.” Department of Transportation will need to decide whether a full environmental impact statement is necessary,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.
“After the environmental assessment is done, the U.S. The Trump administration, however, never told the Metropolitan Transportation Authority whether it needed to conduct a full environmental impact statement or if an abbreviated assessment would suffice, and the program got stuck in limbo.įinally, in March, the Biden administration informed the MTA that it could submit an environmental assessment, which will take less time than drafting an environmental impact statement – a welcome development for proponents of congestion pricing. But because some of the roads that would be tolled have received federal funding, the Federal Highway Administration can require an environmental review prior to implementation. In 2019, the state Legislature finally passed a congestion pricing law, which made New York City the first city in the country to have congestion pricing.
Most recently, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg attempted to push congestion pricing through during his first term in office, but opposition from the city’s outer boroughs and suburbs ultimately thwarted the plan. As far back as 1933, proposals to enact a surcharge for crossing New York City’s East River bridges have come up short. The road to tolling Manhattan’s central business district has been a long one.
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