Toll Takeaway

No more driving tax in NYC:

In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he’d be pulling federal approval of the deeply unpopular program, which he called “a slap in the face to working-class Americans and small business owners.” “Every American should be able to access New York City regardless of their economic means. It shouldn’t be reserved for an elite few,” Duffy wrote. The Federal Highway Administration will work with the New York State Department of Transportation on an “orderly termination” of the program, which charges drivers $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which administers the toll, filed suit almost immediately to preserve the new tax — which upon implementation in January made the Big Apple the most expensive city in the US to drive in.

You can drive your car...