Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce plans Thursday to resurrect congestion pricing with a $9 base toll, The Post has learned.
Hochul’s congestion pricing revamp – which was confirmed by multiple sources – would lower the $15 toll on cars entering Lower Manhattan originally slated to begin in June, before the governor put it on an indefinite “pause.”
The governor’s office had eyed an even-lower toll of $7, but sources said doing so would trigger a lengthy environmental review.
“They felt like $9 is where they could land,” one source said.
Sources said Hochul is eyeing increasing the base toll within the first three years.
The move, first reported by Gothamist, comes after advocates for the controversial program pushed Hochul to resurrect it before Donald Trump, who has promised to “terminate” congestion pricing during his first week in office, is inaugurated as the 47th president in January.
