It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good Monday morning, everyone. If you took the weekend off from the news,

and who could blame you with this weekend's weather, right? You missed the two last-ditch efforts in Albany to keep the MTA's improvement plan funded

after Governor Kathy Hokel's 11th hour bombshell last week.

You know the bombshell putting on pause, congestion pricing tolls that were supposed to take

effect at the end of the month, June 30th, for driving into Manhattan below 60th Street,

she had opposition from a wide spectrum of voices,

from the Teachers Union to the Automobile Dealers Association,

from Governor Murphy in New Jersey to Republicans and Democrats running for Congress in the suburbs.

You probably didn't spend Friday night watching the governor's news conference in which he was asked to define pause.

This is on pause. Yes, it is on pause. I don't know how to define pause other than it's a pause,

meaning it's not happening June 30th,

therefore it's paused.

Yeah.

How long to pause?

Don't ask me, I'm only the governor.

We'll play a clip of her explaining two of them really why she did this coming up.

But let's drill down for a minute on what this means for now for mass transit.

The anticipated revenue from congestion pricing was enabling a $15 billion bond for MTA improvements.

Forget about that bond now without the revenue stream.

What does this mean won't happen for mass transit users in the city and the suburbs?

Well, Crane's New York business has the following list of five big things that won't happen as scheduled.

Second Avenue subway completion.

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