The Federal Highway Administration will now work on an orderly termination of the toll program
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- Donald Trump has just killed congestion prices in New York.
- This decision will put an end to a short -term program which made the most expensive city in NYC USA to drive.
- The governor of NY, Kathy Hochul, promised to fight against change.
Driving in Manhattan below the 60th street costs $ 9 today (between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m.), but this is about to change. Donald Trump and his administration delete a toll that lasted less than two full months. New York’s governor says that she was fighting Trump’s decision, but we don’t know what power she has to do.
“The price of congestion is dead. Manhattan, and all New York, is saved. Long live the king! said Trump on social networks. He made a promise on the campaign path to kill congestion prices and of course, that’s what happened. In a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul, the American transport secretary, Sean Duffy, described the congestion prices of “slap against the Americans of the working class and owners of small businesses”.
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The program, which started on January 5, has now lost its funding. The Federal Highway Administration will work with the New York State Transport Department to end the program in order. In particular, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has already filed a complaint to block the cessation of the program.
For his part, Hochul says that the toll cameras will remain, it is not clear if it will be important. “President Donald Trump tweeted:” Long live the king “. I am here to say that New York has not worked under a king for over 250 years, “she told NBC News to the Grand Central Terminal in New York. “And we’re not going to start now.”
She went even further to say that “Donald Trump is not a” king “and we will not let him use the New Yorkers as a Roadkill during his revenge tour. We will see it before the court. Whatever its rhetoric, it seems that traffic in New York is declining, which is a major point of pricing of congestion. This is the case according to the CEO and president of MTA, Janno Lieber.
Apparently, traffic in Manhattan fell nine percent in January. This represents some 1.2 million vehicles entering the city. Michael Gerrard, a professor from Columbia Law School, told the New York Post that “the Federal Highway Administration approved the congestion price and allowed it to start. He has survived several judicial disputes. It is not at all clear that they can legally revoke approval now. This new decision is likely to be back in court shortly, and in the meantime, the tolls will probably remain in place unless a judge settles otherwise. What happens next is someone’s assumption.
