NEW YORK – A federal judge ruled that US President Donald Trump cannot block New York City from charging motorists to drive in congested parts of Manhattan.<\/p>\n
The $9 daytime toll for motorists entering areas of Manhattan south of Central Park was introduced in January 2025 after being approved just before the inauguration of the Republican president — a native New Yorker. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump argued that the toll would be bad for business, and his new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy terminated approval for the pilot program, sparking a backlash from city officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The organisation that administers the toll, the MTA, sued Duffy’s department in February 2025, saying the push to kill congestion pricing was unlawful.<\/p>\n
Judge Lewis Liman of the Southern District of New York federal court had already granted a temporary approval for the charge to continue while the case proceeded.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, he ruled that “accepting (Duffy’s) view as to the finality of agency action here would permit any government agency to forever frustrate judicial review,” meaning the pricing can continue.<\/p>\n
At the time the toll went into effect, around 700,000 vehicles entered the congestion zone every day, and gridlock meant cars could travel just 11km\/h on average, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The congestion pricing plan also aimed to combat air pollution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Similar driver-tolling schemes have been operated for years in other megacities, including London, but opposition and legal challenges ahead of implementation in New York highlighted the difficulty of charging drivers in a country where a vast majority of people rely on private vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK – A federal judge ruled that US President Donald Trump cannot block New York City from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-152272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152272","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=152272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}