While several lawsuits seek to undo congestion pricing, three House representatives are trying to get the job done through legislation.

The MTA released a report Monday showing traffic heading into New York City was down a week after the new congestion pricing plan went into effect.

The first congestion pricing plan in the U.S. has begun, charging most drivers $9 a day to enter the lower half of Manhattan. The long-debated plan is projected to raise up to $800 million a year for the city's aging public transit system.

Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed budget includes about $6.9 billion for state-owned road and bridge construction and repair, $3 billion toward the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s latest capital plan and boosts to the operating budgets of the MTA and other downstate transit agencies.

Taxes in New York may just get worse.State lawmakers argue that New York City’s congestion pricing won’t be enough to cover the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) $33 billion budget deficit,

Governor Kathy Hochul's safety plan deploys additional NYPD officers on NYC's overnight subways to enhance security.

These hybrid work locomotives will enable the MTA to realize its ambitious capital plan to improve subway operations by replacing an aging fleet and improving reliability,” said Alan Hamilton, Vice President of Engineering for Wabtec.

Congestion pricing was never just about reducing the number of cars in the city, though. Fewer cars would also mean a better quality of life for the millions of people who actually live in New York City, and in that regard, it sounds like congestion pricing has also been a success:

New York's MTA is claiming that, after only one week, the "congestion parking" initiative implemented is "working"

who heads the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York's sprawling subway, bus and commuter rail systems. "We're wasting a ton of money, literally billions of dollars ...

The elevated tracks present another hazard: falling debris. After a wooden beam fell off a 7 train platform in Queens and nearly impaled an Uber driver five years ago, the MTA installed nets and baskets below most of its above-ground tracks.

These are the first of the MTA promised pollution mitigation measures to make up for additional traffic neighborhoods outside of the Central Business District.