Hochul’s congestion pricing reversal comes for a policy decades in the making

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New York was to make history on June 30 as the first American city to implement a congestion pricing program, decades in the making.

Now, just three weeks before the planned start date, history has been made of a different kind: New York is the first American city to very nearly adopt congestion pricing, before dropping it at the last minute without an equal alternative in place.