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The Brian Lehrer Show

Congestion Pricing and You

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Arts, Lerer, Radio, York, Wnyc, News, Media, New, Npr, Nyc, Bryan, News Commentary, Politics, Daily News, Public

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday, the MTA approved new tolls to drive into the busiest parts of Manhattan — including $15 for most passenger cars. Listeners call in to share how congestion pricing will impact them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lear on WNYC and for our last 15 minutes today the rules for congestion pricing are set.

0:16.0

How will they change your behavior?

0:18.0

212 433 WNYC 21212 433 962.

0:25.0

Maybe it's too early to know, but maybe you've been anticipating this moment

0:30.0

when the MTA and their related advisory boards on congestion pricing actually set down the final rules.

0:37.0

I'm going to go over some of them and yes this is still in court so it's possible that a lawsuit could derail it, but what are supposed to be the rules for

0:45.4

congestion pricing have now been announced and they're supposed to take effect in June.

0:50.9

So assuming that happens, how will it affect you? Will it change anything that you do in terms of your own driving or other modes of transit?

1:00.0

212 433 WNYC.

1:03.4

212 433, 9692.

1:07.8

Some of the basics most passenger vehicles

1:10.8

will be charged $15 a day from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on

1:19.0

9 p.m. on weekend. So it starts four hours later,

1:24.0

9 o'clock instead of 5 o'clock, on the weekends.

1:27.0

And of course, that's below 60th Street,

1:29.0

which most of you know, not including through traffic on the FDR Drive in the West Side

1:34.8

Highway those will not be told if you don't actually pull off onto the city street

1:39.6

so you could sort of go into Manhattan to get from Brooklyn to New Jersey say and not pay the toll.

1:47.0

But those are some of the basics.

1:49.3

Now everyone was waiting for the exemptions. Here are some of the exemptions. This is coming

1:56.5

from Crane's New York business. They are detailing the details yesterday and

2:01.2

they note that Mayor Adams had called on the

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