MTA honcho Janno Lieber says NJ will get slice of NY’s controversial $15 congestion toll
NY Post
Green for the Garden State!
New Jersey is expected to get a cut of the controversial proposed $15 daily congestion toll to drive through swaths of Manhattan, the head of the city’s MTA revealed Wednesday.
“There are also, without getting into all the specifics, there is a portion of the mitigation that is actually being allocated to communities that, through their own decision making, they can invest in things that mitigate the impact,” MTA Chairman Janno Lieber told business leaders during an event held by Crain’s New York.
“The way that all of this is determined is allocations by the number of people, who are in areas impacted by initial truck traffic and New Jersey will get its share — exactly on the arithmetic,” he later added, but declined to elaborate further.
Lawyers in New Jersey’s tort against New York’s impending toll have argued the agency should be obligated to provide funding to offset any potential impacts of the charge, including the potential added pollution from trucks and cars being rerouted around Manhattan to avoid the toll.
Representatives for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who’s leading the suit, declined to comment.
