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Congestion pricing ‘pause’ could cost workers

Union trades could lose $3.2 billion in projects

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 6/14/24

Labor leaders were nearly unanimous in lauding Governor Kathy Hochul’s directive to “indefinitely pause” the MTA’s congestion pricing plan. 

Designed to alleviate traffic bottlenecks south of 60th Street in Manhattan, the plan, set to go into effect later this month, was criticized by unions as raising revenue off the backs of the working class. 

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