{"id":90070,"date":"2026-01-05T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:49:11","slug":"27-million-fewer-vehicles-entered-manhattans-central-business-district-in-first-year-of-toll-program-mta-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90070\/","title":{"rendered":"27 million fewer vehicles entered Manhattan\u2019s Central Business District in first year of toll program, MTA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Monday marks one year since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/congestion-pricing-launches-smooth-mta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">congestion pricing cameras turned on<\/a> and began charging drivers a $9 base toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street during peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve months later, state officials are touting data that shows the program is accomplishing its goal of cutting vehicle traffic in Manhattan\u2019s Central Business District (CBD).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/congestion-pricing-27-million-fewer-vehicles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tCongestion pricing: 27 million fewer vehicles entered Manhattan\u2019s Central Business District in first year of toll program, MTA says &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Monday marks one year since the congestion pricing cameras turned on and began charging drivers a $9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[27810,42825,748,3932,75,84,83,28897,9,24,12,63,18438,1210,21992,17899],"class_list":["post-90070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-ben-furnas","tag-central-business-district","tag-congestion-pricing","tag-gov-kathy-hochul","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mta-chief-and-ceo-janno-lieber","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-edc","tag-nyc-transit","tag-transportation-alternatives","tag-u-s-secretary-of-transportation-sean-duffy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90070","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=90070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}