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Bloomberg: NY Wins Bid to Stop US From Freezing Funds in Congestion Fight
Bloomberg link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-27/ny-wins-bid-to-stop-us-from-withholding-funds-over-congestion
Archived (no paywall): https://archive.ph/uNA4Q
New York won a temporary freeze on potential Trump administration moves to withhold federal approvals or funds for the state’s transportation projects, as the president tries to end Manhattan’s congestion pricing program.
The administration has threatened to hold back the funds and permissions unless New York stops charging tolls to drive into the borough’s heavy-traffic zone. US District Judge Lewis Liman on Tuesday granted a request by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for a court order barring such efforts by the government for now.
Liman’s ruling means the program — meant to reduce gridlock and pollution and raise money to modernize the city’s transit system — will almost certainly continue as the legal battle proceeds. It helps reduce uncertainty over how the nation’s largest public transportation system will pay to modernize a more than 100-year-old network.
The judge found that the MTA had demonstrated that it was likely to succeed in its claims. He said it would probably suffer “irreparable harm” without a temporary restraining order, noting that the government’s effort to undo US approval of the congestion pricing program had already affected the value of MTA bonds.
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The administration has threatened to hold back the funds and permissions unless New York stops charging tolls to drive into the borough’s heavy-traffic zone. US District Judge Lewis Liman on Tuesday granted a request by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for a court order barring such efforts by the government for now.
Liman’s ruling means the program — meant to reduce gridlock and pollution and raise money to modernize the city’s transit system — will almost certainly continue as the legal battle proceeds. It helps reduce uncertainty over how the nation’s largest public transportation system will pay to modernize a more than 100-year-old network.
The judge found that the MTA had demonstrated that it was likely to succeed in its claims. He said it would probably suffer “irreparable harm” without a temporary restraining order, noting that the government’s effort to undo US approval of the congestion pricing program had already affected the value of MTA bonds.
