NJ will get some toll money, Lieber says NBC10 Philadelphia [Video]

New Jersey will get a share of the money when Manhattan’s congestion pricing plan goes into effect this summer, MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber announced Wednesday.

Lieber didn’t specify how much, but it figures to be millions of dollars for key counties like Bergen and Hudson — and likely several others. He said New Jersey’s share would be divvied following the same formula already ascribed to neighborhoods expected to see a rise in traffic, like the Bronx, once congestion pricing starts in eight weeks.

“The way that all of this is determined is allocations by the number of people impacted by truck traffic, and New Jersey will get its share exactly on the arithmetic,” said Lieber.

Specifics weren’t immediately available. Any towns or municipalities in the designated impact zone, like Hoboken and Jersey City, for example, would be due to receive benefits.

It could represent a notable shift in the legal stalemate …