Gov. Kathy Hochul said she has no plans on complying with a federal deadline to end New York City’s deeply unpopular congestion pricing scheme on Sunday — with a spokesman defiantly telling The Post that “the cameras are staying on.”
The White House in February threatened to block the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from collecting the $9 toll, which went into effect Jan. 5 for vehicles entering parts of Manhattan below 60th Street.
The MTA filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration that month, with the city and state’s transportation later piling on and joining the legal action against the feds.
“Despite the Administration’s ‘royal’ decree, its effort to summarily and unilaterally overturn the solution to the City’s congestion enacted by New Yorkers’ elected representatives is unlawful and invalid,” the amended complaint states.
City Mayor Eric Adams voiced his support of the lawsuit as New York barreled toward the April 20 deadline last week.
The White House has…
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