With 18 days before a controversial plan to charge $9 to enter lower Manhattan starts, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said her New Jersey counterpart is negotiating in “bad faith” in an effort to settle New Jersey’s lawsuit to stop it.
Speaking at a Wednesday MTA press conference, Hochul said Gov, Phil Murphy was negotiating in “bad faith” in brokering a settlement between the two states to end a lawsuit brought in July 2023 to overturn the federal approval that allowed congestion pricing to proceed.
Congestion pricing, scheduled to start on Jan. 5, is intended to reduce traffic, crashes and air pollution and raise $1 billion annually for subway, bus and commuter rail projects by charging a fee to enter Manhattan’s central business district south of 60th Street. It would the first such program in the nation.
