A New Jersey federal judge plans to rule on the fate of the MTA’s congestion pricing program before the planned roll-out of the controversial toll planned for drivers going south of 60th Street in Manhattan. That’s according to Gothamist.com. Judge Leo Gordon is presiding over New Jersey’s challenge to the program. Rockland County Executive Ed Day says his lawsuit, and several others that have been combined, also still have to be decided…
New Jersey claims the tolls would increase pollution in the Garden State and calls it an MTA money grab. MTA’s lawyers counter that the plan would reduce traffic without harming any part of New Jersey, and promised the MTA would help mitigate any impacts that congestion might have on the western side of the Hudson.