Brian Lehrer on WNYC, and you know how we often do call-ins at the end of the show on something personal to your life or how it connects with something in the news?

Well, you already know the headline from the story we're going to talk about next.

Governor Hockel is trying to revive congestion pricing before Donald Trump takes office and has

the power to kill it if he goes through with that campaign promise or threat.

And so our question for you today is, if you were against

congestion pricing originally at $15, are you more okay with it at $9?212-433. WNYC,

212, 433-9-6-9-2. Here's nine seconds of the governor yesterday. You heard that correctly.

It was $15 before, and now it is $9. That is a 40% reduction. That's a 40% sale on something

you weren't paying for at all in the past to drive into Manhattan below 60th Street.

So is this going to land okay with you if $15 didn't?

212-433.

WNYC, 212, 433-962-9-692 call or text as we welcome back to the show our transportation reporter, Stephen S. And hey,

Stephen. Hello, Brian. Is it different from the original congestion pricing plan that was

supposed to go into effect in June in any other way? Well, like you said, it's a 40% discount or sale, but I think maybe to simplify

everything for everyone, everything is cut by 40%.

So the original daily charge for riders for drivers was $15.

Now it's $9.

That's going to extend to the taxi fee, to the truck fee, as well as to the discounts.

Remember, there was toll discounts on the Holland, Lincoln, Hugh Carey, and Queens, Midtown.

Those are all going to also be cut by 40%.

The only thing that's not being cut, apparently, is the amount of money that the MTA is going to get.

Somehow, through the math that they're figuring, the MTA is still going to get the $15 billion that was part of the

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