Judge Rules to Keep NYC Congestion Pricing, Ending Trump's Legal Challenge

A Southern District Judge ruled in favor of New York City’s congestion pricing program, dealing what could be a final blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to end it, reports Christopher Bonanos in Curbed. “Sean Duffy’s federal Department of Transportation last year asserted a degree of control over the funding, congressional appropriations bills and the power of the purse be damned, and summarily declared the program dead.” Last May, Judge Lewis Liman granted a temporary injunction allowing the program to continue before issuing his final ruling this month.

The Trump administration says it will continue to challenge the program. “Meanwhile, congestion pricing is bringing in roughly half a billion a month, the cash is already paying for a lot of work on the transit system, traffic is significantly down, and city dwellers are breathing in fewer fumes. Do we smell a win?”