Mayor to Promote Congestion Pricing at Forum
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With the deadline to win approval for congestion pricing fast approaching, Mayor Bloomberg is appearing with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters today to talk up the traffic mitigation plan to business leaders.
Ms. Peters will be joining Mr. Bloomberg at the Crain’s New York Business Breakfast Forum, where he is a speaker and will promote his plan to charge drivers $8 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
The city had thought it needed to win approval for congestion pricing by March 31 or else forfeit $354 million in federal funds for the traffic plan, but a city official said yesterday that the deadline may actually be a week later, on April 7.
The Department of Transportation told the city that they actually have 90 days from the start of the legislative session, which began on January 9, to enact congestion pricing, a spokesman for the mayor, John Gallagher, said.
“Regardless, it’s important that we not lose sight of the fact that the deadline is fast approaching and we are facing the loss of 354 million federal dollars for mass transit improvements,” Mr. Gallagher said in a statement yesterday.
