New Jersey is making one last push Friday to curb congestion pricing, hours before the long-anticipated, at-times maligned program takes effect across the river. Federal Judge Leo Gordon has set a 3 p.

With less than three days before the start of a plan to charge drivers $9 to enter lower Manhattan, a federal court judge denied New Jersey’s eleventh hour effort to stop congestion pricing from starting.

A federal judge is expected to rule Friday on whether New York City congestion pricing can start this weekend as scheduled. The MTA's new Manhattan toll plan is set to start Jan. 5, but attorneys representing New Jersey officials say they will ask Judge Leo Gordon to issue a temporary restraining order in a last-ditch attempt to kill it during the 3 p.