Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella says the congestion pricing plan will be a lose-lose situation for his residents, hurting their wallets and their air quality.
Staten Island will join New Jersey in filing a lawsuit against the proposed controversial congestion pricing plan.
"To sit here and then say to the people on Staten Island that you're gonna pay more and your air quality is going to be worse, doesn't make any sense," Fossella says. "Many of them have no choice because we don't have the mass transit infrastructure that the other boroughs have. Those were conscious decisions by the MTA to shortchange and keep Staten Island out of it," he said.
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