It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Later this hour, Congressman

Jamal Bowman defending his seat in the hotly contested Democratic primary in southern

Westchester and the Northern Bronx.

We had his challenger, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, last week.

As many of you know, today it's Congressman Bowman's turn.

That's coming up.

But we start with New York City Comptroller, Brad Lander, here largely in support of the congestion pricing plan. Yes, we're still

obsessing on congestion pricing for driving into Manhattan below 60th street that Governor Hokel,

as you know, has put on an indefinite pause just ahead of its June 30th scheduled start date.

Why, Brad Lander, why still congestion pricing? Because the controller at last word was considering legal action to get congestion pricing back on track.

We'll talk about other things too, including the report in Politico this morning,

that Lander is close to deciding whether to primary Mayor Adams next year.

And we'll read some of your responses to the question

in our Brian Laird Show newsletter last week, asking, if you drive into Manhattan, why do you?

Control or Lander, always good to have you. Welcome back to WNYC.

Great to be with you this morning, Brian. Thank you.

Are you going to court for congestion pricing?

Very likely, yes. Look, Governor Hockel took a disastrously wrong turn when she halted the implementation of congestion pricing. It leaves a $15 billion hole in the MTA's capital program. We can't

modernize our decades-old signal technology. We can't install the elevators.

We've been waiting decades to make the system accessible. That's a legal obligation on the

Americans with Disabilities Act. Congestion pricing is the law of New York State. Governor

Huckle does not have the unilateral authority to cancel it. We actually saw that on Friday when the

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