With the NYC congestion pricing start date expected some time in January 2025, these are the next steps it must pass.

The Federal Highway Administration approved New York City’s congestion pricing plan that will charge people nine dollars to drive into the heart of Manhattan beginning in January 2025.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York City’s congestion pricing program has been granted permission by the Federal Highway Administration to proceed as planned, according to a recent report. And the completion of this final bureaucratic hurdle means that most drivers will start paying $9 to enter the busiest parts of Manhattan as soon as Jan. 5.

A perennial foe of New York’s congestion pricing plan to charge $9 to enter lower Manhattan said he is making good on his past threats to knee cap it before its Jan. 5 start date.

The governor pumped the brakes on the first plan back in June, saying the original $15 toll was just too much for people to pay.

New Jersey Sen. George Helmy said congestion pricing could drive businesses out of New York City and into the Garden State on "The Point with Marcia Kramer."

NEW YORK — New York City officials are doing everything possible to reduce traffic congestion in one of the busiest cities in the world — including trying to stick drivers with a daily toll just to go to work.

Like it or not, NYC congestion pricing is officially back from the dead. Here's what you need to know about fees, hours and when the plan goes into effect.