Congestion Pricing In NYC Is Working!

Around 1.2 million fewer vehicles entered the zone in January, a 7.5% drop from January 2024.

It took up to 30% less time during rush hour to get across bridges and through tunnels into lower Manhattan that month.

Drive times across 34th Street — a major thoroughfare — got cut nearly in half.

Despite the dropoff in cars, more people visited lower Manhattan business areas.

Last month, around 36 million people visited business districts in the zone, about 1.5 million people higher than January of 2024.

Attendance to Broadway shows also rose 17% in January annually, despite predictions that congestion pricing would hurt Broadway.

In early surveys after the program went into effect, New York voters said congestion pricing led to faster commutes and less traffic.

Sixty-six percent of people who drive into lower Manhattan a few times per week or more support congestion pricing, according to the survey.

“The impact of the congestion relief zone in the city has been immediate and positive,” Kathryn Wylde, the CEO of the Partnership for New York City, a business advocacy group said. (CNN)