The MTA has already filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from pulling out plugs for a highly unpopular congestion price hike in New York City.
In a statement issued within an hour after U.S. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter notifying Governor Kathy Hochul, MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber praised the fee system and said he was the government's He vowed to fight back, saying, “Unfounded efforts.”
“Today, the MTA filed paperwork in federal courts and found a very successful program (already reducing congestion, reducing traffic, faster travel times, increasing speeds for buses and emergency vehicles). “These benefits, which ensure that this unfounded effort continue, are those from millions of mass transit users, pedestrians, especially drivers who come to the Manhattan Central Business District,” Reaver said. It was stated in a statement.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court, appointed Duffy and Gloria Shepherd, executive director of the federal Highways Bureau, and promoted their respective agencies. .
“After a four-year, 4,000-page federally overseen environmental review, and just three months after giving final approval to the congestion relief program, it's mysterious that USDOT is trying to turn the course completely back on.” Lieber's statement concluded.
The country's first plan to charge drivers $9 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Avenue came into effect in early January.
In a letter to Hochul, Duffy said the federal government would work with New York State on “orderly dismissal” tolls, but it was not immediately clear when the $9 tax would be collected.
Hochul, who was said to have been in strong talks with Trump over the prices of crowds over the past few weeks, declined to comment.
“Crowded pricing is dead. Everything in Manhattan and New York is saved. Long live the king!” Trump previously vowed to kill tolls, Posted on Truth Social.
