The U.S. Dept. of Transportation said in a letter to New York's governor that it has rescinded its earlier approval for New York City’s first-in-the-country congestion pricing program.
Working under a design-build delivery approach, the team completed replacement of two tower elevator systems on the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, a 540-ft-long vertical lift span built in 1937, and rehabilitated mechanical components, including the span locks.
Transit projects ranging from a $7.7-billion subway line extension to station accessibility improvements are on hold with the pause of program which was expected to generate $15 billion.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she was indefinitely pausing implementation of congestion pricing tolls for Manhattan because of the potential for “unintended consequences.”