Trump administration extended the deadline for NYC to end the price of traffic jams

The Trump government has extended the deadline he gave to New York City to end its tracet price determination program, the first of its type in this country, when New York officials vowed to protect the toll road.

The Federal Highway Administration initially instructed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to stop collecting tolls on this Friday to enable “orderly termination.”

The day before the deadline, Sean Duffy’s Transportation Secretary announced on social media That the Transportation Department gives New York “The 30 -day extension during the discussion continues.”

“Know that the billions of dollars sent by the federal government to New York are not empty checks. Sustainable non -compliance will not be taken lightly,” he said Thursday.

Duffy also warned New York Governor Kathy Hochul that President Donald Trump and the Federal Government “made New York a notification.”

“Your rejection to end your cordon price and disrespect for the federal government is unacceptable,” he said.

In response, Hochul highlighting his statement On social media after the US Transportation Department attracts federal approval from the plan to determine the price of congestion last month, where he said, “The camera still lives.”

Approval was withdrawn on February 19 after the review requested by Trump. Duffy said at that time that “the scope of the pilot project as agreed to exceed the authority permitted by the congress” under the pilot program determining the price of federal administrative values ​​while calling it “withdraw and unfair.”

MTA said that his party challenged Trump’s administrative reversal in the Federal Court, looking for a declaratory decision that DOT’s steps were not right. Hochul’s chairs and CEOs and MTA Janno Lieber said they would not turn off the toll road without a court order.

Lieber reiterated that the attitude during the comments on the unrelated press briefing on Tuesday was arguing that this was “not a will” but the litigation procedure was normal.

“We only continue with disputes as usual in any litigation arrangement,” he said. “This is not a will. This is just a reality when you have a dispute, things have not changed until the court ordered it, and that hasn’t happened yet.”

“We don’t hope that it will happen, because we are in a fairly strong legal footing,” he added.

Lieber said the Federal government had not responded to the initial complaints of MTA, and there was still more time for them to do it.

“The good news is that this program, which has extraordinary benefits for New York residents – faster trips, cleaner air, fewer accidents, less horn, calmer, better environment for all, and also great economic benefits – all that will continue,” said Lieber.

“This program is going on now for 10 weeks, and has been successful with each standard,” he continued. “And that’s the right thing to do for New York to continue.”

The plan to determine the price of congestion, which was launched on January 5, charged the cost of a $ 9 passenger vehicle to access Manhattan under 60th street during busy hours as part of efforts to alleviate congestion and raise funds for the city public transportation system. During peak hours, small trucks and charter buss were charged $ 14.40 and large trucks and tour buses paid $ 21.60.

Tolls produce nearly $ 50 million in revenue in the first month and are on the track to generate $ 500 million in net income by the end of this year, as was originally projected, MTA said.