US: Court upholds New York congestion charge

A federal judge has upheld the right of New York to implement a congestion charge to control traffic.

The Department of Transportation revoked federal approval for the programme earlier last year, not long after it went into effect. It had taken decades to even get to that point, with litigation along the way challenging delays.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority sued, arguing that the decision had gone through a long approval process. 

The judge found the termination to be illegal, noting: “It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here.”