{"id":155525,"date":"2026-03-06T18:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:27:15","slug":"will-a-25-congestion-pricing-fee-come-to-upstate-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155525\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a $25 &#8216;congestion pricing&#8217; fee come to upstate NY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 6, 2026, 8:17 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This story has been updated to clarify policy proposals<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A proposal to impose a new vehicle registration fee in upstate New York that critics are comparing to New York City&#8217;s congestion pricing is sparking politically-charged debates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During the Transportation Committee&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateassembly.granicus.com\/player\/clip\/9366\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Legislative Budget Hearing<\/a> recently, New York Public Transit Association President Miguel Vela\u0301zquez appealed to lawmakers, requesting additional state operating assistance and non-Metropolitan Transportation Authority capital funding for upstate New York&#8217;s transit systems, as well as an additional $25 fee imposed by the state Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 6, 2026, 8:17 a.m. ET This story has been updated to clarify policy proposals A proposal to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1136,9,11,10,49,51,50,56,2488,2489,1041,15245,1050,1004,6489,1145,6488,690,1047,5996,8925,8924,35974,682],"class_list":["post-155525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-accesspremium","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-ny","tag-sstsnews","tag-sstsnnews","tag-tagdonald-trump","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taggovernment","tag-tagkathy-hochul","tag-taglocal-affiliate-travel","tag-taglocal-news","tag-taglong-distance-bus-rail","tag-tagnew-york","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagrepublican-party","tag-tagtraffic-route-planners","tag-tagurban-transit","tag-tagvehicle-licensing-registration","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155525","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=155525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}