Power & Politics: 6 months of congestion pricing and the latest on Mamaroneck flood prevention

This weekend's guests include Regional Plan Association Executive Vice President Kate Slevin, Mamaroneck Village Mayor Sharon Torres, Mamaroneck Village Manager Kathleen Gill and Mamaroneck Assistant Village Manager Dennis Delborgo.

Jonathan Gordon

Jul 20, 2025, 7:03 PM

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6 Months of Congestion Pricing

The numbers are in for the first six months of congestion pricing and its impact on the Hudson Valley.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the pricing program has reduced traffic and raised revenues to fund transit improvements across the region.
Hochul said revenue from congestion pricing is on track to reach the forecast $500 million in 2025, allowing the MTA to advance $15 billion in critical capital improvements to mass transit, including the Metro-North Railroad system.
Transit ridership across all modes has increased from January to May 2025 when compared to the same period last year, including up 6% on Metro-North.
Funds are on track to go toward adding 300 new M9A cars for Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road.

Mamaroneck Flooding Latest

The leadership team in Mamaroneck said the village is the closest it's ever been to getting shovels in the ground on projects that will mitigate storm damage in some of its most flood-prone communities.
The biggest project, led by the Army Corps of Engineers, is still in the works and the village has been coordinating over the last year to get a plan together.
In the meantime, village officials said they've been meeting regularly with federal, state and local partners to start lining up additional projects.
That includes spending $6.6 million to make the area between the confluence and the Tompkins Avenue Bridge be able to take on more water.
Last month, the village applied to cover its part of the money and to remove the Center Avenue Bridge.
There's a deadline at the end of the month for several New York state grants to remove the Tompkins Avenue Bridge, add river gauges, improve cameras in flood-prone areas and get rid of the Continental Bridge.
"We are getting very close to a tipping point," Mamaroneck Village Mayor Sharon Torres said. "In the past, I think the answer has often been the Army Corps was coming, Army Corps is going to be the answer, and we're now looking at it saying weather has changed, and so have ways to address weather change."