MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Sunday that the transit agency has no 'plan B' if a judge rules against its congestion pricing program in one of several
MTA Chair Janno Lieber says there is “no plan B” for billions in transit investments if judges rule against congestion pricing.MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Sunday that the transit agency has no “plan B” if a judge rules against its congestion pricing program in one of several lawsuits challenging it.
“We don’t have a plan B,” Lieber told Ritter. “And as you pointed out, there’s a lot of money at stake.” First approved by the State Legislature in 2019, officials originally predicted the program would be up and running by 2021 but faced lengthy bureaucratic delays during the Trump administration. When Joe Biden ascended to the presidency, the Transportation Department allowed the MTA to conduct an environmental assessment, an abbreviated version of a full environmental impact statement.
Should a judge rule against the MTA, they could either require the agency to perform a new environmental assessment or force it to undertake a lengthier environmental impact statement. Plaintiffs have also raised
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