Smaller trucks, like box trucks, will be charged $24, while big rigs will rack up a $36 base fee.

Drivers in vehicles without E-ZPass will be charged 50% more — $22.50 for cars — and will not be eligible for the tunnel-crossing discount.

The MTA can also bump the toll up by 25% on days the city deems “gridlock alert days” — typical high-traffic periods like the winter holidays or during the United Nations General Assembly.

Transit and commuter buses — whether operated by the MTA, another public agency or a private company — will be exempt from the toll, so long as they are open to the public and run on a regular schedule, as will smaller, TLC-licensed commuter vans.

School buses under contract with the city’s Department of Education will also be exempt. All other buses, be they private intercity charters or employee shuttles, will be tolled as trucks according to their size.

The plan is responsible, under state law, for raising $1 billion a year to fund the MTA’s capital program.

Notably absent from the MTA’s few last-minute tweaks was any adjustment for the city’s yellow taxi cab fleet.

The plan will add a $1.25 surcharge onto the taxi meter and a $2.50 charge onto Uber, Lyft, and other app-based rideshare hails when those cars enter the congestion zone.

Cabbies have long demanded an exemption from the congestion toll, arguing that they already field two surcharges to fund the MTA.

Two of Mayor Eric Adams’ representatives on the board echoed those concerns.

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