MTA CEO ‘confident’ NJ lawsuit won’t derail congestion pricing
MTA CEO Janno Lieber appeared unfazed over the fate of New York’s congestion pricing plan as the state follows a New Jersey
“We are pretty sure that we have followed the law to a T,” he said on CBS’s “The Point with Marcia Cramer” on Sunday. “And we are about to find out that every last aspect of it is satisfactory under the law. But we are confident that it’s passed the test.” New York officials are pushing a first-in-the-nation congestion pricing plan that would begin tolling drivers who go south of 60th Street in Manhattan. In response, officials in neighboring New Jersey filed a lawsuit claiming the program would lead to drivers opting to go through the Garden State in order to avoid the tolls – which would lead to more congestion and pollution.
Lieber also said congestion pricing’s effects on the Bronx will also be helpful to New Jersey because the same trucks are going through both areas. “There are real investments to New Jersey from the investments being contemplated that are being portrayed as ‘Bronx investments,’” he said.Giulia Heyward is a reporter on the People and Power desk who covers politics and breaking news. She previously worked at NPR, as a breaking news reporter, and the New York Times, as a reporting fellow on the national desk. Her work has also appeared in CNN, The Atlantic and Politico.
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