Congestion pricing will start in January with a $9 toll, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday. Hochul wants to restart the program with a lower cost, which is why it's being reduced from $15 for most daytime trips into Manhattan's Central Business District.

On Thursday, Governor Hochul announced a new, reduced toll to get into Manhattan. The incoming president is not a fan.

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,