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The administration of Donald Trump has abolished the federal approval of the highly controversial scheme the price of congestion of New York, in the challenge to the state government that is likely to lead to a court battle.
Sean Duffy carriage secretary informed New York governor Kathy Hochul about the move of his department in a letter on Wednesday. “I share the president’s concern about the effect on the work of Americans, who now have an additional financial burden on the calculation in their daily lives,” he wrote.
In a separate statement, Duffy said that the plan “slap in Americans and the owners of small businesses” and “a program for collecting a driver’s collection is leaving drivers without any free highway alternative, and instead takes more money from working people to pay to pay to pay for the transit system, not the highway.
The US Traffic Department withdrew the key federal approval given to the New York state last year by the administration of Joe Biden. New York became the first American city to launch a congestion price program aimed at relieving traffic and raising billions of dollars for the local traffic system.
According to the scheme, which began in early January, drivers entering the most prominent areas of Manhattan during the peak hours must pay a fee of $ 9. The program works, according to early data, with an increase in bridge and tunnel speed.
The Hochul’s office did not immediately respond to the comment request.
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