An estimated 7.7 million people enter Manhattan’s central business district every weekday – twice the population of Los Angeles, according to the report. Manhattan is an island connected to its neighbors by a network of bridges, tunnels, train routes and ferries. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images New York’s Penn Station subway stop in April. This is a big step for not being so car-centric that reduces the number of people who drive and increases the amount of people who take other sustainable modes to get around.” “There’s not a corner of the city that isn’t negatively impacted by our car-first policies. “This is a massive deal for all New Yorkers,” said Danny Harris, the head of Transportation Alternatives, a nonprofit that has fought for the policy. Public transportation advocates are calling it a long-awaited victory. “Bottom line: congestion pricing is good for the environment, good for public transit and good for New York and the region,” said the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) chair and CEO, Janno Lieber, in a statement. On Wednesday, transportation authorities released a much-awaited environmental assessment for the policy, an important milestone that explains how the plan will affect the city. But in New York, a city synonymous with gridlock, the policy struggled to overcome opposition for decades before it was finally signed into law in 2019. Similar policies have long been in place in cities including Singapore, which has had congestion pricing since 1975, and London, where a congestion charge has been in place since 2003. The plan is called congestion pricing, and New York City is poised to become the first city in the United States to implement it. Instead, the 77-year-old lifelong New Yorker said, she will start taking the bus.
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