MTA: Congestion toll revenue on track to meet 2025 projection

New York City and Metropolitan Transportation Authority's congestion relief zone project is on track to generate the $500 million in net revenue projected for 2025, the MTA announced this week.

The first three weeks of the controversial program netted $37.5 million in revenue, MTA officials said in a press release. 

The congestion pricing program charges drivers a toll when they enter parts of Manhattan, with the money going toward funding transit projects. With funding meeting projections, MTA can advance proposed subway and other transit projects, MTA Chief Financial Officer Kevin Willens said in a Feb. 24 press release.

The results come in spite of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy telling New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in a Feb. 19 letter that the U.S. Department of Transportation is revoking its prior approval, made during the Biden administration, of the congestion toll program. 

MTA is now suing the USDOT in federal court, and Hochul announced at a recent press conference that the program remains in effect.