• Congestion pricing: EMS workers say they’re set to leave Manhattan posts as toll program starts

    Congestion pricing: EMS workers say they’re set to leave Manhattan posts as toll program starts
    Nearly 300 FDNY Emergency Medical Service workers say they're ready to leave Midtown and Lower Manhattan, citing the financial burden congestion pricing will put on their costs of living, their union announced ahead of the toll program's Sunday start.Like all NYC workers, members of FDNY Local 2507, representing the city's 4,100 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics, are not exempt from the MTA's $9 base toll into Manhattan south of and including 60th Street. As a result, the union
  • IT’S ON: NYC opens first-in-the-nation congestion pricing toll program in Manhattan

    IT’S ON: NYC opens first-in-the-nation congestion pricing toll program in Manhattan
    After five years of debate, legal battles, false starts and logistical challenges, congestion pricing finally became a reality in New York at the stroke of midnight Sunday.The MTA's first-in-the-nation tolling program now charges all motorists heading into areas of Manhattan south of 60th Street a $9 toll, with lesser rates charged during off-peak hours. Congestion pricing went live after surviving several last-minute legal challenges from the suburbs, including lawsuits from New York and N

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