Gov. Kathy Hochul's indefinite pause on congestion pricing has officially been challenged in court, with transit riders, environmental advocates, and civic
has officially been challenged in court, with transit riders, environmental advocates, and civic groups filing lawsuits Thursday requesting a judge order the immediate implementation of the stalled Manhattan tolling program., a good government group, filed the first of Thursday’s cases along with Hell’s Kitchen residents Christine Berthet and Kathleen Treat, and accuses the governor of violating the 2019 state law ordering the MTA to implement a congestion pricing program to fund $16.
The plan to charge most motorists $15 to drive into Manhattan was forecasted to drop vehicle traffic in New York’s central business district by 17%, and in doing so produce slight drops in emissions of carbon and noxious particulate matter throughout the tri-state area. Each suit was filed under Article 78 of the state’s civil legal code, which challenges the decisions of government agencies; Celli said he expects the legal team to argue in front of a judge by September.
Most of those suits — including those filed by the United Federation of Teachers, the City Council’s conservative Common Sense Caucus, and the town of Hempstead on Long Island — have been largely dismissed in federal court. Suits from the state ofIn a statement, a spokesperson for Hochul explicitly compared those lawsuits to the new ones, arguing they were all attempting to “weaponize the judicial system.
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