Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to blow through another federal deadline meant to halt the $9 congestion toll to enter parts of Manhattan, as NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ administration backed her in a lawsuit to keep the wildly controversial scheme alive.
Both the city and state Departments of Transportation on Friday joined a suit the Hochul-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority filed in February — after the White House threatened to block the embattled agency from continuing to collect on the first-in-the-nation tolls that went into effect Jan. 5 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
“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.
The latest legal salvo was fired as the White House remained mum about what steps, if any, would be taken should New York snub the Sunday deadline set by the US Department of Transportation to quash the tolls.
Both the Governor’s Office and the MTA said there’s no plan to shut the toll cameras.
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