{"id":89883,"date":"2026-01-05T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:13:09","slug":"congestion-pricing-marks-1-year-as-mta-reports-record-ridership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89883\/","title":{"rendered":"Congestion pricing marks 1 year as MTA reports record ridership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks one year since New York City implemented congestion pricing.<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says it has been a record-breaking year for the MTA.<\/p>\n<p>She says subway ridership increased by 7% over last year, while Metro-North saw a 6% increase.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 1.9 billion trips were taken on the MTA system, which state leaders say is the most since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul also says the subway and Metro-North broke on-time performance records.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to watch tonight for a special in-depth report on the impact of congestion pricing at 8:30 p.m. only on News 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today marks one year since New York City implemented congestion pricing. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[748,40193,14732,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-89883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-congestion-pricing","9":"tag-congestion-pricing-plan","10":"tag-gov-hochul","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-staten-island","15":"tag-staten-island-headlines","16":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89883","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=89883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}