Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey is fighting New York City's proposed congestion pricing plan by introducing legislation to withhold money from the MTA if they move forward with the plan.
below 60th Street. Supporters of the plan say this will help alleviate traffic, reduce pollution, and encourage more people to take mass transit. However, those who live in New Jersey say the plan is unfair and people living in the Garden State will be double taxed. Congestion pricing is estimated to raise $1 billion every year, funds that could be desperately useful for the MTA, which continues to face a massive budget shortfall.
"If MTA Chairman Janno ‘Scrooge’ Lieber has his way and moved ahead with his Christmas crushing congestion tax, it won’t be affordable for our families to drive into Manhattan," said Gottheimer. JERSEY CITY, NJ - JUNE 6: Vehicles drive into the Holland Tunnel on their way to New York City on June 5, 2021 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
"I don’t respond to that kind of rhetoric," Lieber said in response. "The gridlock alert makes exactly the point that we are trying deal with an existential crisis for the city and cars can’t move around in most cases." Representative Gottheimer says next week he will introduce new legislation to stop federal dollars from going into the MTA if the agency does not pump the brakes on congestion pricing.
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