Business Leaders Speak Out Against Mayor’s Plan

Groups and politicians are choosing sides in the debate over the mayor's plan to charge people to drive in Midtown.

REPORTER: Environmentalists have come out strongly in favor of the plan. Business groups are showing more skepticism. Mark Kessler is interim president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. He says the plan hurts small business.

KESSLER: It's a big expense for people making deliveries, makings sales presentations, doing customer relations with their clients, especially people coming from the parts of Brooklyn and Queens where they're used to traveling toll free.

REPORTER: Under the plan, people driving their cars into Manhattan below 86th Street, from 6 AM to 6 PM on weekdays, would have to pay $8. Commercial truck drivers would pay $21 a day.