Source: Gothamist
“Lawyers for the federal government briefly published internal correspondence on Wednesday evening detailing a laundry list of flaws in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s legal strategy to shut down the MTA’s congestion pricing tolls. The document appears to have been mistakenly posted on the docket of the MTA’s federal lawsuit challenging U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s effort to kill the tolls by revoking federal approval. … The three assistant U.S. attorneys in Manhattan wrote that Duffy’s current argument to shut down the tolls isn’t likely to hold up in court. … The letter advises U.S. DOT officials to instead argue they’re revoking approval for the tolls through Office of Management and Budget regulations, which could allow for such a move ‘as a matter of changed agency priorities.’ Still, the letter notes that argument isn’t airtight because the DOT did not give the MTA any money to launch congestion pricing.” (04/24/25)
https://gothamist.com/news/feds-accidentally-publish-secret-plan-to-kill-nyc-congestion-pricing