{"id":65850,"date":"2025-12-09T18:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65850\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:07:06","slug":"new-york-city-congestion-fee-cuts-pollution-by-22-in-toll-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65850\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Congestion Fee Cuts Pollution by 22% in Toll Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pollution in parts of Manhattan declined by 22% in the first six months of this year after motorists began paying a new toll to drive south of 60th Street, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/545745Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Cornell University<\/a> analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The new fee, the first of its kind in the US, began on Jan. 5. Passenger cars pay $9 during peak hours to drive into the tolled zone, which runs from 60th Street to the lower tip of Manhattan. The congestion pricing initiative <a href=\"https:\/\/metrics.mta.info\/?cbdtp\/vehiclereductions\" title=\"MTA data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">has reduced traffic by about 11%<\/a> and is set to bring in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T5XII7GQ1YQW\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">$500 millionBloomberg Terminal<\/a> of net revenue in 2025 to help modernize the city\u2019s more than 100-year-old transit network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pollution in parts of Manhattan declined by 22% in the first six months of this year after motorists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4590,34369,3339,8411,16531,3242,75,1066,9,24,11,10,3610,608],"class_list":["post-65850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-air-quality","tag-automotive","tag-cities","tag-debt","tag-economics","tag-environment","tag-manhattan","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-public-health","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65850","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=65850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}