Courtesy of WRCR.
A flurry of activity on the legal front could delay the implementation of the Metropolitcan Transportation Authority’s congestion pricing plan in the city and slow the MTA in making the improvements to the current transit system they say it needs. But Rockland’s State Assemblyman John McGowan of the 97th district, covering Orangetown and portions of Ramapo, says he has a bill pending in the legislature that could stop it in its tracks entirely…
Several groups have filed suit to stop the plan from being implemented this spring. It could cost many west-of-Hudson commuters an added $4,000 a year to go into Manhattan below 60th street. The Municipal Labor Council, the New York City teachers’ union, Staten Island, New Jersey and others have gone to court to delay it. The MTA says critical improvements to the system can’t be made until the litigation ends.