Trump Administration Orders Halt Of NYC Congestion Pricing

1 day ago President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered a halt to New York City’s congestion pricing system, which thins traffic and funds mass transit by imposing high tolls on drivers entering some parts of Manhattan. Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most passenger cars entering Manhattan neighborhoods south of Central Park. In a statement Wednesday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced the federal government was recinding its approval of the program, calling it “slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners." He said his agency would work with the state on an “orderly termination of the tolls.”