Bill appointee jams him up

AN MTA board member appointed by Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday undercut Hizzoner’s opposition to a proposed gridlock-busting fee.

De Blasio has called the congestion pricing fee “regressive,” preferring a tax on wealthy New Yorkers to fund transit improvements.

Gov. Cuomo, meanwhile, has embraced congestion pricing as a way to ease Manhattan’s heavy traffic and raise money for mass transit.

David Jones, a de Blasio appointee to the MTA board, also runs the Community Service Society, which released a report Tuesday showing congestion pricing would not tax the poor. Few low-income commuters in the outer boroughs would pay the fee to enter Manhattan’s core, according to the report.

“Whether New York adopts a congestion pricing model to fund subway system upgrades or gets behind the mayor’s millionaires tax proposal,” Jones said, “we need to think progressively about leveraging resources to make our mass transit system accessible to all New Yorkers.”

Community Service’s analysis of Census data showed just 4% of outer-borough residents use a car to get into Manhattan. Most are moderate or high-income commuters.