Trump-backed NJ gov hopeful Jack Ciattarelli vows congestion pricing revenge: Were not going to be pushed around by New York

The congestion pricing apocalypse could be coming.President Trump’s choice to become New Jersey’s next governor has a message for New York: drop the congestion tolling scheme — or pay the price.Republican Jack Ciattarelli is vowing to slap a “reverse congestion pricing” fee on all New York vehicles entering the Garden State if he wins the race to replace term-limited Democratic Gov.Phil Murphy.“We’re not going to be pushed around by New York,” Ciattarelli told The Post.The 63-year-old frontrunner in the June 10 GOP primary said, if elected, he’ll set up toll cameras along bridges and tunnels entering Jersey to ID New York license plates, so that vehicle owners could be billed the same $9 fees most drivers pay to enter Manhattan below 60th Street — unless Gov.

Hochul puts the brakes on congestion pricing as Trump has demanded.Revenues collected would go towards upgrading state-owned NJ Transit — just as New York’s scheme is used to raise funds to improve its dilapidated mass transit.“We will replicate the New York model,” he said.“If this is what they are going to do to New Jerseyans, this is going to be what we will do to New Yorkers. New York needs to fix its subway system on its own, just as we’re trying to fix [NJ] Transit on our own.”Regarding the NJ Transit strike, he said it should be illegal for train engineers to walk off the job because the public depends on them to safely travel – just as it is for federal air traffic controllers.

He said he wants to “examine” the feasibility of such a policy.Ciattarelli, a former state assemblyman representing part of Hunterdon County in central Jersey, said he would carry out Trump’s policy agenda, including ending New Jersey’s sanctuary state status and scrapping bail reform laws that help put violent criminals back on the street.“I think that every governor should work in partnership with the president on securing our borders and not welcoming the illegal immigrants to ...