New York’s new tolls on drivers coming into Manhattan under sixtieth Road shall be set by a panel consisting of 5 enterprise leaders, MTA CEO Janno Lieber introduced on Wednesday.
The “Site visitors Mobility Evaluate Board” tasked with setting congestion pricing charges and exemptions shall be chaired by former Metropolis Planning Chair Carl Weisbrod, now a senior adviser for the city improvement agency HR&A Advisors, Lieber mentioned.
Former Actual Property Board of New York President John Banks, actual property large Scott Rechler, development exec Elizabeth Velez and Partnership for NYC President Kathy Wylde spherical out the panelists chosen by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Mayor Eric Adams additionally has one spot on the board, which he has but to fill it, Metropolis Corridor mentioned.
Transit officers are within the midst of an intensive environmental influence evaluation of the toll program, which ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature handed in 2019.
An preliminary draft of the evaluation shall be launched subsequent month, Lieber mentioned. The MTA at present expects the tolls to enter impact on the finish of 2023 or in early 2024.
The Site visitors mobility Evaluate Board will suggest toll costs and potential exemptions to the MTA board, which is able to in the end have the ultimate say on how a lot to cost.
Chatting with reporters on the company’s month-to-month board assembly, Lieber famous that three of the panelists — Weisbrod, Rechler and Velez — are former or present MTA board members.
“That's most likely the only unifying issue, is that they’re of us who perceive the MTA, who've studied us,” he mentioned.
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