A plurality of NYC residents need congestion pricing to remain because the Trump administration strikes to finish the toll, in response to a Siena School ballot launched Monday.
The ballot, which surveyed New York Metropolis registered voters, discovered that 42% stated they wished the toll — which prices most drivers $9 a day to drive on floor streets in Midtown and decrease Manhattan — to stay in place. Against this, 35% stated they wished the toll eliminated.
The remaining 23% stated they have been both “in the middle” or didn’t know the way they felt in regards to the toll.
That displays a extra optimistic angle on the toll than a Quinnipiac College ballot taken on the finish of February, which confirmed 41% of metropolis voters supported the ballot whereas 54% opposed it.
Statewide, New Yorkers questioned final week as a part of Monday’s Siena ballot have been cooler on the toll, which is supposed to each cut back vehicular congestion and enhance public transit primarily throughout the 5 boroughs.
Suburban respondents have been most strongly in opposition to the toll, with 48% in favor of its elimination and 30% saying it ought to keep in place. Upstate voters rejected the toll by 40% to 25%.
Congestion pricing indicators on Park Ave. wanting south in Manhattan. (Barry Williams / New York Day by day Information)
The polling comes lower than two weeks earlier than an arbitrary March 21 deadline set by the Trump administration for ending this system, which was accepted by federal regulators final yr and went into impact in January.
Gov. Hochul has vowed to combat the federal order to finish congestion pricing, calling it a part of an “existential threat” to public transit from the Trump regime in a speech to the MTA’s board final month.
The MTA for its half has stated the tolling system will stay absent a court docket order. The transit company has sued Trump’s DOT in federal court docket, calling the transfer to renege federal approval of the toll and finish a program mandated by state regulation unconstitutional.
Siena pollsters didn’t ask New Yorkers their opinion on Trump’s transfer to finish the toll. Forty-nine p.c of final month’s Quinnipiac respondents, nonetheless, expressed disapproval of Trump’s order to finish the toll, with 45% approving of the legally doubtful transfer.
