It's rush hour for congestion pricing.
As Donald Trump’s inauguration as president approaches, New York Republicans and Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul are in a mad scramble over the potential activation of congestion pricing in Manhattan.New York Republicans, fresh off national victories for president, the House and Senate, are urging President-elect Donald Trump to swiftly kill congestion pricing, even as Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul looks to revive it ahead of Trump’s inauguration in January.
While Hochul insisted the pause was due to the punishing impacts of inflation on New York families, rumors persisted that she actually paused congestion pricing as a means for Democrats to win back contested suburban House seats, which had fallen to Republicans in 2022 and where the toll is uniquely unpopular.
If congestion pricing isn’t turned on by Jan. 20, Trump can instruct his yet-to-be-named Transportation Secretary to withhold his signature from a document authorizing a “Value Pricing Pilot Program,” or VPPP. That’s the final document necessary to authorize the start of congestion pricing and the one Hochul instructed her own Transportation Commissioner, Marie Therese Dominguez, not to sign.
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