The amount of revenue that New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority estimates it lost in 2022 due to people forging, altering or obscuring their license plates to avoid toll readers and traffic cameras. Motorists have been sharing ideas on social media for avoiding the city's new congestion fees for driving in the busiest part of Manhattan. City agencies have stepped up their fight to remove so-called ghost cars from the city, seizing more than 20,000 of them over the past three years.
