Last night, the City Council approved the plan to charge most drivers $8 to enter a zone below 60th Street by a vote of 20-30, with no abstentions and one absence.

Next the vote goes to Albany. According to the Times’ Governor Paterson and Joseph Bruno are supporters but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver hasn’t stated his preference.

City Council President, Christine Quinn, was quoted in the New York Times as saying that this vote would send a message to the Legislature that “the people who were elected to represent the New Yorkers who live in our five boroughs are sick and tired of our streets being clogged with traffic, we’re sick and tired of the children who live in our city literally having to fight to be able to breathe, and that we see congestion pricing as a solution to this problem.”

Streetsblog has a list of the roll call.