Had Andrew Cuomo still been governor, congestion pricing would already have been scuttled. Now in exile, and hoping to somehow claw his way back into politics, Cuomo editorialized months ago against the very legislation he signed into law, back in 2019. But unlike his successor, Kathy Hochul, who shocked the political world by halting, last week, the implementation of congestion pricing, Cuomo would have been cleverer and more cutthroat about smothering an initiative he never much wanted. The tolling cameras, which would charge motorists $15 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street on weekdays, were set to be turned on June 30; there is little chance that Cuomo would
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