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Cuomo: There will be double tolling with congestion pricing

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday “there will be some double tolling” on the bridges and tunnels entering Manhattan’s Central Business District — countering statements by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy suggesting a deal to provide a discount to Garden State motorists who pay tolls at the Hudson River crossings and then drive into Midtown.

“There will be some double tolling otherwise you don’t accomplish anything because you don’t raise any revenue,” Cuomo said on 1010 WINS.

Cuomo was referring to the new congestion pricing law that will charge a toll for motorists who drive onto the streets of Manhattan between the FDR Drive and West Side Highway beginning in 2021.

When asked why Murphy seems to think there won’t be any double tolling, Cuomo said it’s something “the MTA has to work through.”





“But how that’s done, the devil’s in the details and the traffic study is going to inform the MTA to make that decision over the next two years,” Cuomo said.

The MTA is charged with producing a “traffic study” to determine congestion pricing toll rates.

Murphy told reporters Wednesday he and Cuomo were seeing eye to eye, coming to a “conceptual understanding” regarding double tolling.

But MTA chairman Pat Foye and Cuomo spokesman Pat Muncie said there was no specific deal.





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