CBS NEWS
July 25, 2024
BY ALICE GAINER
"NEW YORK -- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's sudden pause on congestion pricing is facing two new lawsuits.
The City Club of New York is suing several people and agencies, including the governor, the state Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The lawsuit challenges Hochul's ability to block the 2019 MTA Reform and Traffic Mobility Act.
'It asked the court to order Gov. Hochul and her transportation commissioner to abide by the law or get out of the way. The law could not be more clear. Congestion pricing must happen to ease congestion in central Manhattan, to revive and upgrade our mass transit system for all of us, and to save the environment for today and for tomorrow,' an attorney said of the first lawsuit..."
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