Are you kidding me?
President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to New York City’s congestion pricing system, which thins traffic and funds mass transit by imposing high tolls on drivers entering some parts of Manhattan.
Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most passenger cars entering Manhattan neighborhoods south of Central Park. In its early days, transit officials say the toll has brought modest but measurable traffic reductions.
What authority do the feds have here? More nonsense to demoralize and distract.
The interstate bridges and tunnels that go into New York City are owned and run by the Port Authority, which has federal oversight in addition to oversight from the states of New Jersey and New York.
What does this have to do with the downtown congestion pricing?
The bridges and tunnels are where they collect the tolls for people coming into Manhattan. Also, on the ferries, which are also run by the Port Authority
It sounds like they need to collect the toll right after the tunnel then.
Yeah, except the Mayor has committed a bunch of federal crimes and Trump is having them dismissed in exchange for his cooperation.
They’re being dismissed without prejudice so they can be refiled at any time.
It’s highly unlikely that the Mayor will do anything that’s not in Trump’s best interest for as long as he is in office.
The governor needs to dismiss the mayor. She has the power.
Are you sure you’re not talking about the wrong toll? I haven’t been to NYC recently enough so don’t know how they implemented congestion tolls, but that’s different from the tunnel and bridge tolls.
All I can find online is “MTA installed license plate readers around the city”
So no authority
None.