The Federal Highway Administration approved the program on Friday, though it could still be stopped by lawsuits. President-elect Donald Trump is also opposed to the plan.

The authority runs the subway, buses and commuter lines to the suburbs, as well as some tunnels and bridges, and will now implement congestion pricing. On November 18th its board approved the new $9 toll.

New York City has received a green light from the Biden administration to implement a retooled congestion pricing program, but the plan still faces lawsuits from opponents and anticipated pushback from incoming President-elect Donald Trump.

With NYC's congestion pricing start date tentatively set for January 2025, here are the next steps it has to pass first.

The city will be the first in the U.S. to adopt a fee on driving in certain areas, with the aim of reducing traffic and pollution. For some other cities, that has long been the norm.

New York’s plan to charge people driving on Manhattan’s traffic-clogged streets survived Governor Kathy Hochul’s five-month pause. Now a long-simmering legal challenge from New Jersey threatens to kill it.

New York announced that most cars will now have to pay to enter the city at peak hours, a hotly debated move intended to reduce traffic.

New York’s congestion tolling plan has received federal approval, meaning the toll of $9 for most drivers entering lower Manhattan will take effect Jan. 5, 2025. The program, with goals of reducing traffic below 60th Street and funding Metropolitan Transportation Authority capital programs,

Congestion pricing is back from the dead, meaning drivers will ring in the New Year by paying tolls whenever they enter lower Manhattan. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a new version of its original congestion pricing plan Monday — but it still faces a lot of opposition.

NEW YORK — New York City officials are doing everything possible to reduce traffic congestion in one of the busiest cities in the world — including trying to stick drivers with a daily toll just to go to work.