Congestion Pricing Deadline Pushed Back
March 19, 2008
United States Transportation Secretary Mary Peters will be among the guests at the Crain’s Breakfast Forum in Manhattan today at which Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to, once again, push his congestion pricing plan.
While preparing for today’s meeting between the mayor and Peters, city officials realized they might have a little more time to convince state lawmakers to go along with the plan.
The agreement between the city and the U.S. DOT sets a deadline of 90 days after the state legislative session began - which would make it April 7th, instead of March 31st as originally thought.
Although — just to add some confusion to that — the state passed a last year promising a decision on the issue in time for the federal deadline. So that state deadline still reads March 31st.
The mayor says traffic would improve significantly in Manhattan if he was given authority to implement a toll on vehicles traveling below 60th Street.
Source: NY1
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