“Yet just before implementation, congestion pricing was indefinitely paused at a press conference framed around inflation and cost of living concerns”
Governor Kathy Hochul killed America’s first congestion pricing scheme less than 30 days before it was to start, after hundreds of millions had already been spent building it. About 55% of city households don’t own a car, and they get to watch Phase II of the Second Avenue Subway slide back into limbo. The winners are drivers from Bergen County who would have paid for streets they clog. The MTA now has to reshuffle a capital program mid-stream because the governor flinched.