Congestion toll chaos will push commuters to ditch their cars in northern Manhattan, outer boroughs: ‘New park-and-ride’

The invasion of the Bridge and Tunnel crowd won’t just be on weekends anymore.

Commuters to the Big Apple will be turning neighborhoods across the city into their own personal parking lots beginning this week, ditching their rides to save their wallets because of the $9 congestion pricing plan , concerned residents told The Post.

The plan is expected to upend neighborhoods closest to the 60th Street tolling zone with nightmarish gridlock as a surge of drivers begin scouring for free parking spots.

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Neighborhoods closest to the 60th Street tolling zone are expected to be upended with nightmarish gridlock once the tolling scheme takes effect.

“Parking is already very much an issue. We have nine hospitals in our district, and many of them are north of 60th Street,” said Upper East Sider Valerie Mason, a member of New Yorkers Against Congestion Pricing Tax, a group suing to stop the scheme.

Hospital workers and visitors already eat up the majority of the nabe’s street parking, she added.

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