Congestion Pricing: Comptroller Lander assembling potential plaintiffs for suit to restart paused Manhattan toll

New York City Comptroller Threatens to Sue to Reverse Pause on Congestion Pricing

NEW YORK CITY—New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and community organizers and activists have vowed legal action in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s freeze on the implementation of congestion pricing. The policy of charging commuters entering Manhattan below 60th St. a $15 toll was set to take effect June 30 pursuant to a 2019 statute. Mr. Lander and allies claim it would have raised $1 billion for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). But …

Congestion Pricing: Comptroller Lander assembling potential plaintiffs for suit to restart paused Manhattan toll

Jun. 12, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld City Comptroller Brad Lander said Wednesday that he is assembling a coalition of legal minds and impacted parties to potentially sue New York state over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s eleventh-hour decision to indefinitely pause congestion pricing. Because the governor framed her decision as a “temporary pause,” and the original start date of June 30 for the $15 congestion toll in Manhattan has not yet passed, Lander and othe…