The Federal Highway Administration has approved MTA's congestion pricing plan. Some New Jersey lawmakers say that was a mistake. VMurdockTV reports on the call for a full environmental impact study.
"They're not looking for real solutions to their challenge," said Menendez."They're looking to fund an underfunded MTA."It aims to reduce congestion and pay for mass transit upgrades by charging cars and trucks entering the Manhattan's Central Business District below 60th Street as much as $23."I think it's ridiculous," Jersey City resident Jose Alvarado said.
It's going to cause more traffic at all three Hudson River crossings to the city, according to the MTA's own assessment, says Menendez. "The MTA acknowledges in their report to the federal government that if their congestion tax program goes into effect, there will be more cars diverted here at the tunnel and trucks to northern New Jersey ... The MTA said the Bronx alone could face 700 more trucks every day and countless more trucks by Fort Lee in northern New Jersey," Gottheimer said. The MTA's assessment shows air quality in the Central Business District would improve but not in the Garden State, says Gottheimer.
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