Traffic sucks. There's really no other way to put it. And in New York City, in Manhattan, it's especially bad.

You know, driving in Manhattan is not fun. I don't think it's no I think that's a I think that's actually a fact an objective provable facts. Yeah, it's not fun. It's basically impossible to go across town, which is to say east-west in the middle of Manhattan.

The New York City Department of Transportation and other authorities kind of do regular surveys

of traffic speeds, and they have over time just reduced.

That's our colleague Jimmy Vielkind.

He says that to fight the traffic, New York officials decided to impose something called congestion pricing.

Anyone driving into Lower Manhattan would have to pay $15.

The plan was set to go into effect at the end of this month.

But at the last minute, New York Governor Kathy

Hockel changed her mind and decided to put congestion pricing on hold, indefinitely.

After years of planning, New York City was finally going to move forward with this

congestion pricing plan, which was beloved by urban planners and major pillars of the city and Governor Kathy Hockel got cold feet.

Welcome to the Journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Ryan Knutzen.

It's Tuesday, June 11.

Coming up on the show, how a controversial plan to reduce traffic in New York City broke down at the 11th hour. our.

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