Governor Kathy Hochul's new plan calls for a $9 fee on most vehicles driving into Manhattan neighborhoods south of 60th Street.

New York’s controversial congestion pricing program is no longer paused after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a modified plan.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to resurrect a toll on people driving into the busiest parts of Manhattan but at a lower cost, a move her allies hope will allow the nation’s first system of congestion pricing to begin operating before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.

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 City’s congestion pricing plan is back and set to kick in on Jan. 5, Gov. Hochul announced Thursday. But the daily toll — which Hochul put on indefinite hiatus this past June, three months before it was supposed to go into effect — will be $9 rather than the original planned toll of $15 for at least three years,

New York plans to revive a $9 congestion mitigation charge for driving in Manhattan starting in January that the state indefinitely put on hold earlier this year, Governor Kathy Hochul said Thursday.

New York plans to revive a congestion mitigation charge for driving in Manhattan that the state indefinitely put on hold in June, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Thursday. New York City's congestion pricing program,

New York said Thursday it will revive a controversial scheme to charge drivers entering parts of the city, a first in the United States, putting local authorities on a collision course with President-elect Donald Trump.