{"id":118234,"date":"2026-01-31T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:39:04","slug":"how-manhattans-congestion-toll-speeds-up-trips-in-the-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118234\/","title":{"rendered":"How Manhattan&#8217;s Congestion Toll Speeds Up Trips in the Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Along with upgrading transit service, a top goal of New York City\u2019s congestion pricing program has been untangling gridlock within Manhattan\u2019s central business district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe project\u2019s purpose is to reduce traffic congestion in the Manhattan CBD,\u201d MTA official Allison de Cerre\u00f1o <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/document\/95481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">declared<\/a> in 2022, more than two years before most drivers began paying $9 to enter parts of the island during peak hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Along with upgrading transit service, a top goal of New York City\u2019s congestion pricing program has been untangling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[37321,98,288,3339,5869,52053,75,84,83,1066,9,24,63,10706,1413,956],"class_list":["post-118234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-brooklyn","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-economic-research","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-perspective","tag-policy","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}