The leader of a New York City union that represents bus and subway supervisors slammed Gov. Kathy Hochul and state authorities for implementing a congestion toll on Manhattan drivers in the wake of escalating violence on the city’s subways.
The toll, which ranges from $4.50 for motorcycles to $9 for passenger vehicles, and up to $21.60 for large trucks that enter a zone south of 60th Street, is set to start Sunday.
Phil Valenti, head of the 1,600-member Transport Workers Union Local 106, told the New York Post on Thursday that the subways are too dangerous to give commuters another option. He said Hochul and Janno Lieber, chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, “are to blame for this mess.”
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