Noise #159: Manhattan's $500M monuments to nothing

A congestion pricing plan stalls, but the infrastructure and price tag remain.

For years now, Manhattan has been crawling towards a congestion pricing plan, which would charge vehicles $15 to pass through the most clogged sections of Midtown.

The plan was debated and approved. Large metal overhangs were installed with cameras and sensors. Budgets were formulated to account for the additional billions of revenue the plan would gene…