"The brief states that if the legislature wanted to give Hochul or any other governor the power to cancel the toll plan, they would have written it into the law."
"It argued that giving the governor an unwritten power to 'indefinitely pause' the MTA's implementation of the congestion pricing law obscures political accountability."
"The Streetsblog article pointed out a political paradox: that while the governor has said she alone is authorized to make calls on major state issues like congestion pricing, she also needs the state legislature's help in resolving the issue."
"The legislature was passed by both houses of legislature and signed by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, and that public authorities assigned control over the city's bridges, tunnels and subways have always been presumed to be independent from elected officials."
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