MTA set to send some congestion pricing money to NJ to mitigate impacts

Traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel. The MTA now says some congestion pricing money will go to New Jersey to mitigate adverse environmental impacts there.to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!

The MTA is currently hopping the final bureaucratic hurdle before it can implement the toll to drive into Manhattan south of 60th Street by June. Most motorists would be charged $15 under the proposal, with higher rates for trucks and overnight discounts. “The way that all of this is determined is allocation by the number of people who are in areas that are impacted by additional truck traffic,” Lieber said. “And New Jersey will get its share exactly on the arithmetic.”being advanced by New Jersey in its federal lawsuit

What mitigation could mean for New Jersey is less clear. One lawyer for the MTA, Mark Chertok, said in court this month that the steps would be “fine-tuned” over time, while another lawyer, Elizabeth Knauer, said New Jersey will benefit from “regional mitigations” like clean electric trucks, as well as diesel trucks spending less time idling by making deliveries in the overnight hours.

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