[Source.](https://reason.com/2023/07/24/new-jersey-files-environmental-lawsuit-to-delay-manhattan-congestion-tolls/) > New York officials have primarily pitched congestion tolls as an easy cash grab for the city's subway system. New Jersey drivers and politicians aren't happy about that. > New York's four-year-old plan to charge drivers entering lower Manhattan has hit yet another bump in the road after the state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit to stop it. > The lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey against the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), argues that federal officials didn't do a thorough enough environmental analysis of the congestion pricing scheme before signing off on the project earlier this summer. > FHWA's "fundamentally flawed and improperly truncated decision-making process" failed to study the impacts on New Jersey communities from all the traffic (and attendant pollution) that would be diverted by a Manhattan congestion charge, reads the suit. > The complaint asks the court to freeze the implementation of congestion tolls while additional studies, potentially taking years, are performed.