[steve86]

It’s probably the interstate aspect.

[stylin19a]

ahhhhh...makes sense...but it looks like it's all about who paid for what...all about the money.
still, when this country went to a 55 mph speed limit, it was "voluntary". They couldn't dictate to the states...they could make it hard not comply by withholding road funds.

Here's the letter sent from the Sec of Transportation
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/VPPPletter_termination_021925.pdf

https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/us-department-transportation-terminates-tolling-approval-new-york-citys-cordon-pricing

The construction of federal-aid highways as a toll-free highway system has long been fundamental to the Federal-aid highway program. Except for limited exceptions allowed by Congress, highways constructed with Federal-aid highway funds cannot be tolled. The construction of Federal-aid highways as a toll-free highway system has long been fundamental to the Federal-aid highway program. The VPPP is one of the exceptions to the general prohibition against tolling.

As detailed in the letter, the Secretary is terminating the pilot for two reasons. First, the scope of the CBDTP is unprecedented and provides no toll-free option for many drivers who want or need to travel by vehicle in this major urbanized area. Second, the toll rate was set primarily to raise revenue for transit, rather than at an amount needed to reduce congestion. By doing so, the pilot runs contrary to the purpose of the VPPP, which is to impose tolls for congestion reduction – not transit revenue generation.

Why couldn't MSM say some of that that ?