did worsen in <\/a>Bronx neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\u201cOpponents of congestion pricing said there would be hotspots for increased pollution. That has not happened,\u201d said John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a pro-mass transit watchdog group.<\/p>\n
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Kaehny\u2019s group supported congestion pricing to reduce traffic and to fund the MTA, but did not promote the pollution reduction argument, because as the DOH report noted, auto traffic makes up only about 14% of particulate matter emissions and 20% of nitric oxide emissions in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat congestion pricing would only have a small impact on air quality is consistent\u201d with prior environmental impact statements on the toll\u2019s consequences, the report said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhoever was hyping the air pollution was wrong from the beginning,\u201d Kaehny said.<\/p>\n
Janno Lieber, CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, speaks at a press conference at the Chambers Street Subway Station in New York City on August 10, 2026. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n
Critics of the congestion toll in the outer boroughs remained skeptical.<\/p>\n
Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, a plaintiff in the lawsuit to block congestion, noted that truck traffic has increased in his borough, and questioned how the report could say pollution hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe report reaffirms that congestion pricing was nothing but a money grab. Just come out and say it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But the MTA, which operates the congestion toll and collects the revenue to fund its buses and trains, said the pollution report proves the program is working.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore we turned the cameras on, there was concern about the potential for increased pollution caused by drivers looking to avoid the toll,\u201d MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said in a statement about the city report.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs this study confirms, that didn\u2019t happen, and congestion pricing is already funding additional investments to further improve air quality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Told you so! A new city report that found congestion pricing failed to reduce air pollution in Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[748,153,426,57,141,9,56,63,65,64,13926,58],"class_list":["post-324563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-congestion-pricing","tag-donald-trump","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pollution","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324563","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=324563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}