Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) on Wednesday afternoon announcing the move.

“New York State’s congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners,” Duffy said in a press release. “Commuters using the highway system to enter New York City have already financed the construction and improvement of these highways through the payment of gas taxes and other taxes. But now the toll program leaves drivers without any free highway alternative, and instead, takes more money from working people to pay for a transit system and not highways.”

“It’s backwards and unfair,” he added.

New York City implemented the plan in January after an extended pause from Hochul, which generated a considerable uproar from transit activists in the city. She altered the plan to lessen the tolling impact on commuters before reinstating it.

Duffy and other Transportation Department officials said the program was canceled for two reasons: one was because they believe the scale of the program is “unprecedented” and “provides no toll-free option for many drivers who want or need to travel by vehicle in this major urbanized area.”

The second reason the DOT put forward is that the toll was “driven primarily” by efforts to raise money for the state’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. “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,” according to the DOT.

Duffy also said he made the decision to review the program after President Donald Trump and New Jersey officials, long opposed to the plan, showed concern. He ended the letter by saying that Federal Highway Administration officials would contact New York’s transportation department “to discuss the orderly cessation of toll operations under this terminated pilot project.”

The Washington Examiner reached out to Hochul’s office for comment but did not receive a response.