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City drivers? Make 'em pay

Ellis Henican

Newsday columnist Ellis Henican Ellis Henican

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Michael Bloomberg is sounding agitated.

His bold congestion pricing plan, charging drivers $8 to enter Manhattan

below 86th Street from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., could soon be watered down by Albany.

And he is not one bit pleased.

Anything less than the as-envisioned approach, the mayor was grumbling on

Friday, "would bring in less money and would leave us with another traffic...

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