Midday traffic from New Jersey waits for a red light at the exit of the Lincoln Tunnel on March 15, 2023. - Evan Simko-Bednarski/New York Daily News/TNS
NEW YORK — New Jersey sued the Biden administration Friday to stop New York’s congestion pricing plan, the latest escalation over the effort to charge drivers entering Manhattan. The suit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, claims the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration failed to conduct a “comprehensive” and “complete” environmental review of the Empire State’s plan, which New Jersey claims will have “significant” environmental impacts. “We are suing to block New York’s ill-conceived congestion pricing plan,” N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday at a press...
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