MTA Chairman Janno Lieber was calling the controversial congestion pricing toll, which charges most drivers $9 to enter city streets below 60th

Traffic entering Manhattan below 60th Street dropped by 7.5% in the first week after the start of a controversial $9 toll on driving in that area.

With the first week of New York’s Congestion Pricing toll in the books, commuters are reaping a reward, spending less time in traffic in exchange for their $9 toll to enter lower Manhattan, said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The MTA released a report Monday showing traffic heading into New York City was down a week after the new congestion pricing plan went into effect.

NYC's congestion pricing program has already reduced gridlock and the number of vehicles entering Manhattan in its first week, according to early data.

The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge has been toll-free since it first opened to traffic back in 1909, but some drivers are now being charged because of congestion pricing, whether they know it or not. CBS News New York's Doug Williams reports.

Now that congestion pricing is in effect, drivers are discovering a quirk of the Queensboro Bridge that tolls them even if they don’t want to enter the zone south of 60th Street – and they’re furious.