Transportation
6 Reasons New York's Latest Traffic Pricing Plan Will Succeed
The growing Move NY coalition has released its final plan—and it has signs of a winner.
The dream of road pricing will never die in New York, and on Tuesday it got a new injection of life. Move NY, a rapidly expanding coalition involving former city traffic engineer Sam Schwartz, released its "final" plan to charge drivers for the congestion they create heading into Manhattan's central business district. The new revenue stream—upwards of $1.5 billion a year—will go toward funding much-needed transportation maintenance and expansion projects across the city.
"It has finally sunk in that the feds will be little or no help," Schwartz tells CityLab. "We, as do all local governments, need home-grown solutions."