Daily producer Will Reed here in New York. It's about 8.50. And I'm on my way to meet Michael

Barbarrow and... my way to meet Michael Barbaro and oh there he is.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

Thank you, it's beautiful here.

It is.

So where are we going?

We are going to my car.

I confess I have a car in Brooklyn.

And we're going to use it to commute in the Manhattan,

which is not a thing I normally do via car but there's a journalistic rationale which we will get to.

You're going to sit here.

Okay I'm going to open the windows just get a little air in here. Okay, I'm going to open the windows.

Just get a little air in here.

So, Michael, why are we driving into New York today?

We are driving in Manhattan in order to study, observe, lay eyes on what was supposed to be this first in the nation tolling system for cars entering a downtown.

It's an anti-traffic program that says if you want to be part of traffic then you have to pay for it.

It's been in the works for years.

So we're just going to go basically do a dry run through the infrastructure of this tolling system known as congestion pricing.

We're now on a ramp taking us off the FDR at East 61st Street. So we are one block

north of the congestion pricing zone. So we're gonna go straight up. There's the cameras. So, oh you see them. Yeah. We are seeing the tolls and in fact I'm just going to slow down.

And there's three in a row.

These are three feet by four feet, four by four,

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