Update-Late Friday night, New Jersey attorneys filed a notice with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that the state intends to appeal Judge Gordon’s Dec. 30 ruling that upheld the federal approval that allowed congestion pricing to proceed.
With less than three days before the start of a plan to charge drivers $9 to enter lower Manhattan, a federal court judge denied New Jersey’s eleventh-hour effort to stop congestion pricing from starting.
U.S. International Court of Trade Judge Leo M. Gordon, sitting in Newark, ruled Friday night against a last-minute motion by New Jersey, Bergen County and Fort Lee to delay the Jan. 5 start of the first congestion pricing program in the nation.
