Study Finds Air Quality Improvement After a Year of Congestion Pricing

Study Finds Air Quality Improvement After a Year of Congestion Pricing

NEW YORK — Friday, the New York City Health Department released its first comprehensive evaluation of the Congestion Relief Zone Tolling Program’s impact on neighborhood air quality, determining that the city’s air quality remained stable or improved slightly in the first year of congestion pricing, continuing a 20-year trend of improving air quality and declining […]

New York City's air kept improving with congestion pricing, report finds

Congestion Pricing Has Improved New York’s Air Quality

A new report from the Department of Health shows air quality remains stable or slightly improved after the first year of city-wide congestion pricing.

Congestion Pricing had no effect on air quality

The city Department of Health just released a report to answer the question: Did congestion pricing affect air quality in the congestion relief zone? The answer? No. The city set up monitors around the five boroughs (there are two in Fidi) and Yonkers to measure four different pollutants: Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), and black carbon (BC). While all these pollutants are produced by vehicles, NO2 is …