NYMTA Responds to Administration’s Move to End Congestion Pricing
2/21/2025
The Trump Administration on Feb. 19 moved to end the congestion pricing program that began Jan. 5 in New York City. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the move will halt the program that charges most drivers $9 to enter much of Manhattan.
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYMTA) Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said in a statement that the agency filed papers in federal court to “ensure that the highly successful program—which has already dramatically reduced congestion, bringing reduced traffic and faster travel times while increasing speeds for buses and emergency vehicles—will continue notwithstanding this baseless effort to snatch those benefits away from the millions of mass transit users, pedestrians, and, especially, the drivers who come to the Manhattan Central Business District. It’s mystifying that after four years and 4,000 pages of federally supervised environmental review—and barely three months after giving final approval to the Congestion Relief Program—USDOT would seek to totally reverse course.”