City Comptroller Brad Lander said Wednesday that he is assembling a coalition of legal minds and impacted parties to potentially sue New York state over Gov.
City Comptroller Brad Lander has assembled a coalition of advocates, business leaders, and legal minds prepared to sue to preserve congestion pricing .City Comptroller Brad Lander said Wednesday that he is assembling a coalition of legal minds and impacted parties to potentially sue New York state over
The list also includes New Yorkers with disabilities, who struggle to move around a city with a transit system that’s only 30% accessible. In 2022,and, in doing so, agreed to make 95% of all subway stops fully accessible by 2055. Congestion pricing money was going to pay for a large chunk of that, and now the
There’s also the 2021 Green Amendment approved by New York voters, affirming a constitutional right to clean air, water, and the environment. On the federal level, the coalition believes Hochul’s move could violate the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act. “Although the governor said that this was a temporary pause, indefinite pause, the courts of New York are clear that an indefinite pause is tantamount to a permanent pause,” Gerrard continued. “And we are prepared to go to court to challenge that.”
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