NYC Congestion Pricing Program Remains Despite Federal Deadline

New York City’s congestion pricing program will remain in effect, despite the federal government’s Sunday deadline to stop it.

“The program is working. Traffic is down, business is up and the cameras are staying on," Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement, according to NBC News. 

The U.S. Transportation Department said in a statement to NBC New York on Friday that it expected New York to comply with the Sunday deadline to “terminate this program."

But Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said it was unlikely anything would change, given that a federal judge has so far sided with New York that the toll is legal, and court filings suggest it will most likely take until the fall for the case to be fully resolved, the news agency reported.

Congestion pricing, which went into effect on Jan. 5, seeks to lessen traffic and raise funds that will fix the city's subway system.

The plan charges most cars entering Manhattan's central business district — which stretches from 60th Street down to the southern tip of the Financial District — a peak fee of $9 from 5:00am to 9:00pm on weekdays, and 9:00am to 9:00pm during the weekend.