Interesting article in the Times related to what I wrote the other day about traffic around New York City. The U.S. Department of Trasportation has given the city $354 million, so Mayor Bloomberg can move forward with his plan to charge commuters:

The mayor’s plan was first aired in April as part of a package of proposals meant to guide the city’s growth in an environmentally sensitive way over the next two decades. The plan proposes to charge drivers $8 and trucks $21 a day to enter or leave Manhattan below 86th Street on weekdays during the workday. Those who drive only within the congestion zone would pay $4 a day for cars and $5.50 for trucks.

No truth to the rumor that he plans on charging people who walk to work 7 cents a step.

Labels: commuting