Corey’s drive for congestion tolls

With congestion pricing gridlocked in Albany, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said on Friday that he was looking to take matters into his own hands.

“I think we have potential home-rule authority that we’re willing to look at,” he said after giving a speech on transit at the New York Law School downtown.

“It is always cleaner and easier if Albany does it because of the vast powers that Albany has through our state Constitution over the city of New York. But . . . we will take a look at what our potential authority and powers are.”

In 2007, then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg pushed a congestion-pricing plan that would toll vehicles traveling at traffic-heavy times in parts of Manhattan to fund for mass transit. That plan died in the Legislature.

Gov. Cuomo this year embraced a proposal that included charging daily fees for cars and trucks entering certain zones in Manhattan. But the Legislature passed only a portion of that plan, charging fees for ride-hail vehicles in congestion zones.

Mayor de Blasio has said he’s open to congestion pricing but has claimed he hasn’t seen a final proposal.

But Johnson cited two plans — one by the group Move NY and another by Cuomo’s Fix NYC panel.

The Manhattan Democrat also noted that the council recently devised its own “jury-rigged” solution to extend a program for speed cameras near city schools after the state Senate failed to vote to renew it.

City Hall declined to comment on Johnson’s homerule explorations on congestion pricing.