The Legislature and Congestion Pricing

The Brian Lehrer Show

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

To start, State Senator Liz Krueger talks about how the state legislature is responding to the Governor's "pause" of congestion pricing as their session ends. Then, Karen DeWitt discusses the political ramifications of the congestion pricing "pause" and the end of this legislative session.

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0:00.0	It's the Brian Laraish show on WNYC.
0:13.2	Good Monday morning everyone.
0:14.6	If you took the weekend off from the news,
0:16.5	and who could blame you with this weekend's weather, right?
0:18.7	You missed the two last-stitch efforts in Albany
0:22.3	to keep the MTA's improvement plan funded after Governor
0:26.2	Kathy Hokles 11th hour bombshell last week.
0:29.0	You know the bombshell putting on pause congestion pricing tolls that were supposed to take effect at the end of the month, June 30th,
0:37.0	from four driving into Manhattan below 60th Street.
0:41.0	She had opposition from a wide spectrum of voices, from the Teachers Union to the
0:46.4	Automobile Dealers Association, from Governor Murphy in New Jersey to Republicans and Democrats
0:52.3	running for Congress in the suburbs.
0:54.8	You probably didn't spend Friday night watching the Governor's news conference in which
0:59.3	he was asked to define pause. This is on pause.
1:04.0	Yes, it is on pause.
1:07.0	I don't know how to define pause other than it's a pause, meaning it's not happening June 30th,
1:11.0	therefore it's paused.
1:13.2	Yeah, how long a pause?
1:16.8	Don't ask me, I'm only the governor.
1:18.8	We'll play a clip of her explaining, two of them, really,
1:21.4	why she did this coming up, let's drill down for a minute on what this means for now for mass transit.
1:29.0	The anticipated revenue from congestion pricing was enabling a $15 billion bond for MTA improvements.
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