New York’s MTA Poised to Vote on Congestion Pricing Fee

The US’s first-ever congestion pricing toll is set to move forward as New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to hold a vote next week on the new fees, according to two people familiar with the transit agency’s plans.

Congestion pricing will charge motorists a toll driving into Manhattan’s central business district, which runs south of 60th Street. Drivers could begin paying the new fee as soon as mid-June. The MTA is implementing the program and plans to use the estimated $1 billion a year of new revenue from the tolls to modernize subway signals, add more elevators to stations and ...