Governor Kathy Hochul said she has no plans to meet a federal deadline to end the deeply unpopular congestion price scheme of New York City on Sunday, with a spokesman defiantly she tells the position that “the cameras stay.”
The White House in February threatened to block the metropolitan transport authority to collect the toll of $ 9, which Entered into force on January 5 For vehicles entering parts of Manhattan under 60th Street.
The MTA filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration that month, with the transport of the city and the State later accumulating and lighting the legal action against the federals.
“Despite the ‘real’ decree of the administration, its effort to overcome in a sum sum Summary and unilaterally the solution to the congestion of the city promulgated by the chosen representatives of the New Yorkers is orwful and invalid,” says the complaint amended.
City Mayor Eric Adams expressed his support Or demand when New York crashed towards the deadline of April 20 last week.
The White House has decreased to what will happen, in any case, if New York ignored the deadline established by the United States Department of Transportation.
The agency earlier this month Posted in X it “I would not hesitate to use all the tools at our disposal” to close the tolls if the State did not comply, but refused to provide details.
The White House previously demanded that the MTA stopped collecting tolls on March 21, but the Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced before the deadline that the DOT of the United States granted an extension of 30 days until Sunday as negotiations continued.
In a statement to Sunday’s publication, the head of the MTA, politics and external relations, John J. McCarthy reaffirmed the decision of the agency to sue the DOT and hastened Duffy for launching his weight.
“In the event that there were Doubs, MTA, State and City reaffirmed in a judicial presentation that the congestion price is here to stay and that the secretary of arguments Duffy made trying to stop him with zero merit,” said the spokesman.
The EE DOT. UU. He did not respond to a request for comments from the post on Sunday in response to the challenging response of the Hochul office as the deadline changed.
