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NY, NJ REPS. MALLIOTAKIS, GOTTHEIMER JOIN FORCES TO STOP NYC’S $15 CONGESTION
TOLL ‘CASH GRAB’

By Carl Campanile

Published April 25, 2024, 6:37 a.m. ET

A bipartisan bill aimed at outlawing the controversial first-in-the-nation $15
“congestion” toll to enter Manhattan’s business district south of 60th Street
was introduced Wednesday by New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and New Jersey Rep.
Josh Gottheimer.

“The MTA’s Congestion Pricing Plan is nothing more than a cash grab that will
take more money from commuters and shift traffic from Manhattan to the outer
boroughs, increasing pollution in my district, particularly in minority
communities,” Malliotakis, a Republican who represents Staten Island
and southern Brooklyn said.

“The MTA’s war on cars is bankrupting commuters, and we will continue to use
every legal and legislative tool we have to stop it,” she said.

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The bipartisan bill was introduced Wednesday by Reps. Nicole Malliotakis
(pictured) and Josh Gottheimer. LP Media
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A bipartisan bill aimed at outlawing the $15 “congestion” toll to enter
Manhattan south of 60th Street was introduced Wednesday by Rep. Nicole
Malliotakis and Rep. Josh Gottheimer. Chris Pedota, NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY
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Gottheimer, a Democrat, represents a north New Jersey district that borders the
George Washington Bridge.

“The mismanaged MTA’s Congestion Tax is nothing but a shameless cash grab that
will lead to more traffic, pollution, and financial heartache for Jersey and New
York families. That’s exactly why we’re introducing legislation at the federal
level to stop it,” Gottheimer said.

Gottheimer separately held a press conference outside MTA headquarters downtown
demanding a breakdown of how the transit agency came up with the estimate
that the new Midtown $15 toll would generate $1 billion in revenue. He claims it
would raise triple that.

He complained the MTA has blown off his legal requests for information.

Gottheimer said he is sending a bipartisan letter with his New York GOP
colleagues to the chairman of the House Transportation & Infrastructure
Committee requesting a formal subpoena for the information that he sought in his
legal request and a hearing where MTA leaders can testify about the congestion
tax.

In response, a top MTA official — Long Island Rail Road president Rob Free —
mocked Gottheimer when asked about the Garden State congressman’s criticism.

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A Siena College poll released Monday found that nearly two-thirds of voters in
New York City and the Empire State oppose the new Manhattan toll — spanning
every cross-section of residents. Robert Miller

“Gottheimer — Goodheimer — I’m not sure of his name,” Free said during an
unrelated press conference celebrating the LIRR’s 190th anniversary.

“I believe I saw in a video that he was chauffeured here in a car. I’m trying to
understand why he didn’t take public transit and New Jersey transit over the
river and use the MTA system,” Free said of Gottheimer to guffaws from transit
advocates.

But the public overwhelmingly opposes the congestion toll.

A Siena College poll released Monday found that nearly two-thirds of voters in
New York City and the Empire State oppose the new Manhattan toll — spanning
every cross-section of residents.

What do you think? Post a comment.

Congestion pricing is being implemented because of a state law championed by
former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat-controlled legislature in 2019 — yet
only 34% of Democrats support it.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, Cuomo’s successor, has defended congestion pricing as a good
thing to curb traffic, improve the environment and fund mass transit amid a
plethora of lawsuits to block it.

The toll could be charged beginning in June.

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