It’s coming! New York has started installing toll readers on the West side of Manhattan to start charging congestion fees by Spring, but the New Jersey governor is fighting back.

New cashless systems are already popping up in the busy metropolitan that will charge commuters anywhere between $9 and $23 to enter the Big Apple come May.

Contractors were seen installing these readers along 61st Street and West End Avenue on Friday morning, and more will be popping up all across the city from 60th Street down.

Congestion pricing is expected to go into effect in the Spring, but the Garden State is fighting back.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, 65, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in hopes of blocking the installations, which he claimed the feds short-circuited the traditional review process.

However, MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said the transportation agency “got the federal environmental approval.”

“We’ve started that installation as we’ve also started to build out the software, and what we call the back-office system for capturing toll information and generating bills and so on,” Lieber said at a Wednesday press conference.

Murphy, however, accused New York of “toll shopping” on Friday and claimed it would cause commuters to find different routes into the city to “avoid paying higher tolls, resulting in more traffic and more pollution.”

“We are particularly disappointed in the lack of a thorough environmental review and lack of mitigation measures for impacted communities,” Murphy said on Friday. “Their finding that the MTA congestion pricing program will not have any significant impacts is an error.” 

Murphy called the tolls “anti-environmental, anti-commuter, and anti-business.”

“@USDOT and @USDOTFHWA have unlawfully fast-tracked the @MTA’s attempt to line its coffers at the expense of New Jersey families. We stand united against the unjust taxation of our residents,” he wrote on Twitter.

MTA’s Chief External Relations John J. McCarthy responded to Murphy in a statement, saying: “This lawsuit is baseless. The 4,000-page Environmental Assessment performed by MTA, New York State DOT and New York City DOT was supervised at every stage and specifically approved by the Biden Administration … We’re confident the federal approval – and the entire process — will stand up to scrutiny.”

The MTA is operating the toll readers. The company’s Traffic Mobility Review Board met on Wednesday to discuss the new edition to the streets.

Board member Carl Weisbrod said: “If we give a full credit for crossing, then we’re not dealing with congestion at all from the west.”

International President of the Transport Workers Union, John Samuelsen, 55, of Southern Brooklyn – who also sits on the board – said he is in full support of the congestion pricing, “but it needs to be done right.” 

He told the New York Post that the whole point of the program is to “drive people to public transportation” and to change their behaviors to favor the environment. 

“It’s a good plan,” he told The Post. “[It’s an] extremely inviting project.” 

However, he does believe three things need to be looked at prior to the rollout, which includes expanding the express bus system – both in operation and availability – accommodations for overnight commuters who do not have viable options outside of cars, as well as looking for ways to help low-income drivers. 

Although he did not comment on the New Jersey lawsuit Murphy filed today, he did highlight that overnight commuters from the Garden State do have setbacks as the system does not run 24 hours a day, leaving them with very few options besides driving into New York City in the early hours of the morning. 

The New Jersey Transit trains only run between 5 a.m. and 1 a.m., according to the MTA. 

Samuelsen also pointed out that the money earned through the tolls would be funneled into the Capital budget, not the operation budget, which is dictated by New York State law. 

The Capital budget can be used to improve and rehabilitate infrastructure, as well as purchase new trains and buses. It was also used to fund the expansion of the Second Avenue subway line. However, it cannot put more trains in the tunnels or buses on the road to increase operation — only the operation budget can do that. 

Samuelsen – who described himself as living in a “transit desert” part of Brooklyn – believes the program should be looked at in a “fair and equitable way” in order to “sustain” the investment of getting drivers out of their cars and onto public transportation, and that the operation budget does need more funding to improve the increase in ridership. 

However, many are asking for exemptions to the tolls – including taxi and rideshare drivers, like Uber and Lyft – but the board says there will be very few offered, as the goal is to encourage commuters to take public transportation systems into the city, according to ABC 7.

When asked if the board would consider exemptions, Samuelsen told The Post the discussion hadn’t happened yet as far as he is aware, but he believes it would be brought up in the future. 

In addition, some residents aren’t exactly happy with the new development, with Upper West Side resident Lauren Mandel questioning why the city is installing cameras on both sides of the street, when only those traveling South of 60th Street should be charged when it goes into effect.

“People will be completely confused because they won’t even know if it took effect, and they will be going all the way north or all the way south, or other boroughs just to bypass it, and it’s going to wreak havoc,’ she told CBS News.

Others, including Mandel, wondered why the radars are being put up already when it won’t go into effect until May.

“I don’t think they should have done that because it may not go through, still there is a chance it may not go through. They may have wasted some money,” Martha Buckner told CBS News.

However, at least one resident, Howard Robinson, is fine with the proposed toll, telling the outlet: “More people should ride bikes, and there really isn’t room for cars in Manhattan anyway.”

The toll readers – which cost $507 million to design, build, and operate – will be located around Lincoln and Holland Tunnels coming from New Jersey, and Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, Queens-Midtown Tunnel, Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel in the boroughs, according to the MTA.

There will be 120 detection points across both the West and East sides of the island.