The lawsuits seek to force Gov. Kathy Hochul to turn on the tolls charging drivers in Manhattan below 60th Street.
A Manhattan judge allowed lawsuits challenging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pause of congestion pricing to proceed on Friday — but not before declaring, “I got a ride into Manhattan and the traffic was terrible. Can’t someone do something about it?”
His ruling allows the cases to proceed, though the slow pace of litigation may conflict with Albany’s legislative calendar. Hochul has pledged to have aDuring oral arguments on Hochul’s motion to dismiss the cases, Engoron repeatedly questioned the state’s lawyers about the governor’s authority to pause the plan in the first place. The judge asked if the move was just a “backdoor veto” of the program.
Schoenfeld’s argument revolved around legal technicalities about the federal approval process for the tolls, prompting Engoron at one point to interject, “Oh, come on.” (Engoron grabbed national headlines while overseeing former President Donald Trump’s “It's very clear that the Legislature puts the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority in charge of congestion pricing," said Andrew Celli, a lawyer for the City Club of New York. "It did that for a really good reason, which is to make it nonpolitical, to avoid exactly what's happened here, which is political actors sticking their nose into what should be a legal and technological issue.
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