If the top reason the MTA gives for congestion pricing is to ease the traffic in Manhattan, we are wondering why the license plate readers ‘get you’ if you are driving from upper Manhattan to the Queensborough Bridge … or if you are going from the FDR to the Brooklyn Bridges.
Yep, if you are coming down 2nd Avenue, the toll reads your plate just as drivers make a left onto the bridge at 59th Street. The FDR Drive does not have the Congestion Toll, however, as most drivers are aware, there is no direct route from the FDR to bridges in Brooklyn, meaning vehicles will go through the ‘zone.’ We are not sure how vehicles traveling those routes are adding to the congestion in lower Manhattan, but it seems those who claim Congestion Pricing is merely a ‘money grab’ by the financially dysfunctional MTA might just be on the right track.
