I dunno.
Word is, the New York state legislature has approved a plan to allow New York City to enforce a new congestion pricing plan which would require drivers into (and through) Manhattan (below 60th Street) to pay for the privilege, from between $8 and $24.
Actually, that plan hasn’t been approved.
What has been approved isn’t exactly [...]

Mayor (and future US President) Michael Bloomberg has been pushing a plan to charge people who drive their cars into midtown Manhattan, during the workday.
If the Mayor is able to get the plan passed by next Monday, the city of New York would be eligible for as much as $500 million in funds from the [...]

Good for New York, good for other cities?
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plan to reduce traffic by charging people who drive into the busiest parts of Manhattan received significant support on Thursday as Gov. Eliot Spitzer endorsed the idea and the Bush administration indicated that New York stood to gain hundreds of millions of dollars if [...]

How exciting.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will call on Sunday for a raft of ambitious and sometimes contentious proposals that are intended to ease traffic congestion, reduce air pollution, build housing, improve mass transit and develop abandoned industrial land.
What will almost certainly be the most contentious idea, however, involves charging drivers to enter the busiest sections [...]

What if a city decided it wanted to reduce the number of people driving cars on its roads during rush hour? Could it do so?
London has. In fact, its program has been very successful.
Theirs is a “program that went from idea to implementation in just 26 months, significantly reducing traffic and pollution while [...]

Looks like NYC has wimped out on plans to bring congestion pricing to Midtown Manhattan.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that it was unlikely that the State Legislature would allow the city to charge drivers to enter the busiest parts of Manhattan as part of a congestion pricing plan similar to one used in London.
The [...]