![]() Josh Gottheimer (D-Cars), who in February mentioned that an ironworker son-in-law of a constituent drives to Manhattan every morning because he supposedly works too early to take public transit. ![]() The hard-working laborer who "has" to drive into lower Manhattan for work has been a favorite example of congestion pricing opponents like Rep. The final EA also says that the toll during overnight hours will be at least half of whatever the peak hour toll rate is set as - and the lower-income volume discount will not apply to that. Under state law, congestion pricing has two goals: To raise $1 billion per year for public transit and to reduce congestion (and its attendant harms) in central Manhattan. The MTA tested several scenarios, with peak hour fees ranging from $9 to $23 per day, depending on the number of credits and exemptions the MTA offered. As such, the MTA said it has to do something to avoid "a disproportionately high and adverse effect" on those drivers. But the final EA offers the 25-percent discount because some low-income drivers have no "reasonable alternative," as the agency terms it, to drive into Manhattan frequently. 79 percent of lower-income commuters who use transit, the MTA said in its draft environmental assessment. ![]() Only about 9 percent of car commuters into Manhattan below 60th Street have incomes that meet the discount threshold vs. The MTA will reduce congestion pricing tolls on low-income drivers who travel frequently into the Manhattan congestion zone, Streetsblog has learned - one of a handful of new mitigation efforts that are revealed in the final environmental assessment that was approved by the federal government on Friday.įor the first five years of congestion pricing, drivers using E-ZPass who have a household income of under $50,000 per year, or are enrolled in an income-based assistance program such as SNAP, will get a 25-percent discount on each trip into the congestion pricing zone after they've taken 10 trips in a calendar month. Congestion pricing - now with bulk discounts!
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