The start of New York City congestion pricing can proceed as scheduled on Sunday, a federal judge has ruled.A hearing began Friday afternoon, and it was a tense four-hour wait before the judge's decision came down.

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.

New York’s controversial plan to charge drivers entering Manhattan’s central business district was cleared by a federal judge to take effect on Sunday, in a blow to efforts by neighboring New Jersey to kill the congestion toll.