The first-month tally comes as congestion pricing faces an uncertain future after the Trump administration withdrew federal approval.
Albany must increase funding for the MTA that can be used to bond for infrastructure development. Congestion pricing isn't the only solution.
Lieber and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul have vowed to fight to the bitter end (in court, at least) for congestion pricing.
Revenue figures from the Manhattan tolling plan showed that the program is on track to raise billions for mass transit repairs.
Environmental groups and transit advocates are joining a federal lawsuit filed by New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority seeking to overturn president Donald Trump's decision to halt the city's congestion pricing plan.
Federal officials are giving the MTA until March 21 to end its congestion pricing program, but Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York will continue to mount an "orderly resistance" to the Trump administration’s attempts to kill the tolling plan.
It worked. Tens of thousands fewer cars now enter the congestion pricing zone daily. Let me be one of the sources social historians decades hence quote on what this feels like: Suddenly, traffic in New York is more like traffic in Philadelphia or Washington, D.C., than I have experienced in my 23 years here.
The MTA took a victory lap on congestion pricing, presenting new data and rebuking the "existential threat" from the White House.
The Trump administration hasn't changed its stance on congestion pricing since Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called for the program's end last week.
The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a letter ordering the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to eliminate its congestion pricing toll in New York City by March 21.
Congestion pricing got off to a better than anticipated start, bringing in $48.6 million in its first month, and now transit officials are speeding up plans to borrow against the toll revenue to fund mass transit upgrades as the Trump administration attempts to kill the program.
From Jan. 5, the first day of the program, to Jan. 31, tolls from the congestion pricing program generated $48.66 million, according to the MTA.