BLOOMBERG
July 25, 2024
BY MICHELLE KASKE & CHRIS DOLMETSCH
"Governor Kathy Hochul was sued over her pause on New York City’s traffic congestion pricing plan by several advocacy groups that claim she had no legal authority to freeze the program.
In a pair of lawsuits filed Thursday in New York state court, the groups asked that the state be forced to follow through on the plan, slated to be the first in the US and designed to curb air pollution and help finance billions of dollars in transit infrastructure upgrades for the city. They asked the court to declare Hochul’s pause unlawful and to block the state from taking any further action to delay the project..."
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