(Reuters) – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Monday to implement a $9 congestion mitigation charge for driving in Manhattan starting on Jan. 5, a move aimed at raising billions for mass transit and cutting traffic.
New York City’s congestion pricing program, the first of its kind in the United States, was revived last week by Governor Kathy Hochul after she had put it on indefinite hold in June.
New York plans to charge a $9 toll during daytime hours for passenger vehicles driving in Manhattan south of 60th Street after scrapping an earlier plan to charge $15 that would have started on June 30.
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
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