Feds accidentally upload internal memo admitting plan to kill NYC congestion pricing is ‘very unlikely’ to succeed — before quickly deleting it

Source: New York Post

Lawyers for the Department of Transportation accidentally uploaded an internal memo detailing the federal agency’s plan to kill congestion pricing in New York — and admitting that the legal strategy is “very unlikely” to succeed. The 11-page filing, which was posted on a court docket and then quickly deleted late Wednesday, lists the holes in Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s legal arguments to stop the tolling program that hits drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street with a $9 fee. The three government lawyers tasked with defending Duffy’s move did offer an other possible legal avenue to halt the scheme, but noted it, too, carried risks.