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New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has failed to collect $5.1 billion in tolls and fees over just four years, outraging residents who are meanwhile being asked to pay new congestion pricing rates.
The agency said that “toll violations” exceeded $1.4 billion in 2024, as well as $3.7 billion between 2021 and 2023, according to a report from the New York Post.
That comes as certain residents find ways to cheat the system, such as by using “ghost plates” to avoid collection of the tolls through the new “cashless” systems.
But commuters in the Big Apple are now forking over $9 congestion tolls to enter Manhattan in a new program unveiled last month. The $500 million to $800 million to be collected from commuters each year does not even come close to matching the amount lost through violations.
New Yorkers therefore see the congestion prices as unfair. […]
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