On April 22, 2007, Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City, citing to what he considered successes in London, Singapore and Stockholm, proposed a plan to charge $8 per day for cars to use the streets of the central business district (southern half of Manhattan) but not when using only the marginal highways, or nights or weekends. It would not involve satellite location, but drivers who wanted their tolls collected automatically could have a transponder like the E-ZPass already used to collect tolls on tunnels and bridges.
