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Gov. Kathy Hochul joins congestion pricing supporters in Manhattan
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0:34Now PlayingGov. Kathy Hochul took a victory lap over congestion pricing Friday, claiming New Yorkers are better off for it — even as she considers hitting the city with more taxes to prop up the embattled MTA.
Dozens of congestion pricing supporters, including Hochul, defiantly gathered near Union Square on the day President Trump’s administration had set — before pushing it off — as a deadline to kill the lower Manhattan toll program.
Hochul awkwardly joined in the crowd’s chant of “traffic is down, business is up” before singing the praises of $9 tolls for not only reducing gridlock and cleaning up the air, but also ultimately raising $15 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s massive capital plan to revamp the city’s transit system.
“We’re still on that journey, and the more people who get a chance to see the benefits — just walk around and talk to people ask if their lives are more enriched, whether they have more time with their families, if they’re a commuter,” she said. “Whether or not they’re finally realizing that we have the world-class public transit system, but we need to keep it world-class by raising the revenues to invest in it as well.
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