Congestion pricing is moving full speed ahead.
The Federal Highway Administration OK’d the final bureaucratic step Thursday for the revamped program to collect $9 tolls for cars entering Manhattan below 60th Street starting Jan. 5.
The agreement gives the MTA permission to collect congestion tolls under the feds’ value pricing pilot program.
The federal sign-off comes after Gov. Kathy Hochul and MTA officials resurrected congestion pricing from its months-long “pause.”
The new plan will lower the base toll from $15 to $9, at least to start.
Tolls will increase to $12 in 2028 before reaching the full $15 by 2031.
But the hated toll program’s future remains in doubt, as it faces lawsuits, intense opposition from many local lawmakers and a president-elect Trump who has promised to “TERMINATE” it during his first week in the White House.