MTA is already trumpeting the success of the controversial congestion price setting plan. It states that data on profits and temperament is still approaching, but sliced travel hours and reduced the number of cars.
Juliet Michaelson, the Deputy Director of the institutional policy and external relationship, indicated that the MTA Committee was on Wednesday that there were few drivers crossing the border of the 60th street in the congestion zone. Was stated.
As a result, travel hours have been improved, and if more commuters focus on buses and subways, and shift driving time, they miss peak rates.
On the average day in January, about 583,000 vehicles entered the crowded zone, but this month they decreased to 490,000.
“What we studied, what we expected, and what we planned seem to be happening,” she said.
“We are spreading traffic from the busiest time,” she continued. “That's what we wanted to do, and that's what the victims are doing.”
Michaelson has stated that travel hours across the eight bridges and tunnels, which lead to the Manhattan congestion zone, have decreased by 10 % to 30 %.
However, the agency is planning to publish the next week's revenue data, and will publicly disclose how much MTA will earn from $ 9 of the person who is driving under Central Park at the peak. He said he was planning that.
In addition, the effects of congestion price for the temperament have not yet been measured. Michaelson states that agency needs “several months of data to achieve all kinds of category conclusions.”
“It will take some time to know the impact,” she said.
Officials have said that they are fighting avoidance of tolls to cruise on camera banks on the so -called “ghost plate” that hides their identity from collectors.
“The covered plate is just [where] We are losing [on] It is a big dollar, so it is necessary to consider continuous execution, as it is on the subway, “said David Mac, a member of the Board of Directors.
MTA's CEO and chairman Janno Lieber said that he agreed to Mac, but the agency collected 96 % of the traffic fees and is a problem of Albanny, which should be finally solved.
“It is necessary to change the law,” Liver said. “Now, people receive invoices by e -mail. They do not pay them. If they are registrants in New York, we can take their registration, but New Jersey. What happens if my friend doesn't pay their sacrifice?
“We can't always register a car registered in New Jersey,” he said. “That's No. 1. How do you deal with Deadbeats outside the state?”
There is still a possibility that President Trump will try to end the congestion price setting.
However, Liver believes that Queens native understands Big Apple's traffic problems better than most people.
“Donald Trump lives in the 59th Avenue and spends enough time to downtown to a low -workman hattan or midtown building by car, to understand the cost of new traffic and traffic. I believe it is.
“I know that there is a politician who feels strong about it,” he continued. “You will see how things shake in the government.”
