New York City Comptroller Threatens to Sue to Reverse Pause on Congestion Pricing

NEW YORK CITY—New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and community organizers and activists have vowed legal action in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s freeze on the implementation of congestion pricing. The policy of charging commuters entering Manhattan below 60th St. a $15 toll was set to take effect June 30 pursuant to a 2019 statute. Mr. Lander and allies claim it would have raised $1 billion for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). But earlier this month, the governor announced an indefinite pause on the adoption of the higher tolls. The congestion pricing tolls were meant to alleviate heavy traffic and its attendant environmental damage, as well as to raise money for bonds that would permit far-reaching upgrades to subways and other components of the city’s mass transit system....