My guess is that we'll eventually get congestion pricing, because I find the arguments that Hochul was acting outside her legal authority to be plausible. Still very bad for many reasons when blue state leadership sends the message that liberalism is incapable of governing.
Might write more about this but in some ways this is the culmination of the New Deal coalition's crackup. FDR set out to prove liberal democracy could do big things during periods of crisis, now we have Democratic leaders in another crisis of democracy saying "lol not it can't."
I am heartened that we can see plenty of examples in other Dem lead/blue states of liberalism succeeding, but goddamn has Hochul tried her damndest to stand out against that trend and make it seem like *NY in particular* is a place that cannot get out of its own way in order to get stuff done.
At this point, I'm putting it down to "Lenape ghosts laughing from the Beyond over the sale of Manhatten, saying to each other 'didn't the palefaces realize the whole island was cursed?!'"
