Congestion pricing was agreed to in 2019.

Expected revenue was used to budget quite a few projects; this caused a bit of a scare when Hochul put it on hold for a while. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/nyregion/congestion-prici...

The loans backed by congestion pricing revenue weren't taken out until this year https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/ny-mta-ge...

That money you're talking about was money that was already spent to implement congestion pricing

One specific loan was taken out this year. (And planning tends to preceed the actual loans.)

Planning is not the same as spending

	▲	JumpCrisscross 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s not shovel-ready spending. But it’s absolutely part of the process, and not one you can skip in a democracy.
	▲	CryptoBanker 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That article was about expenses related to implementing congestion pricing, so I'm not sure what your argument is here