{"id":151455,"date":"2026-03-03T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151455\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:50:07","slug":"judge-rules-against-trumps-bid-to-end-manhattans-congestion-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151455\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Against Trump&#8217;s Bid to End Manhattan&#8217;s Congestion Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge has declared the U.S. Transportation Department&#8217;s efforts to terminate Manhattan&#8217;s congestion pricing initiative as illegal, dealing a blow to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempts to dismantle the program.<\/p>\n<p>Imposed in January 2025, the congestion pricing charges vehicles $9 during peak hours to enter Manhattan&#8217;s designated zones, aiming to alleviate traffic and generate funds for transit improvements. In its first year, the program reduced vehicle entries by 27 million and generated $550 million in revenue. This funding supports $15 billion in mass transit upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Despite criticism from figures like Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who argues it burdens drivers and lacks free alternatives, the initiative remains a pioneering U.S. effort, akin to those in London and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A federal judge has declared the U.S. Transportation Department&#8217;s efforts to terminate Manhattan&#8217;s congestion pricing initiative as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[748,63347,75,84,83,5031,9,24,63,3736,63346,63345,1069,6159],"class_list":{"0":"post-151455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-congestion-pricing","9":"tag-federal-ruling","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-mass-transit","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sean-duffy","18":"tag-traffic-reduction","19":"tag-transit-improvement","20":"tag-trump","21":"tag-usdot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}