A day after City Comptroller Brad Lander announced he and dozens of advocates were exploring legal action against Gov. Kathy Hochul and her administration over her decision to indefinitely pause the rollout of congestion pricing, he ramped up the pressure on the governor Thursday.

In an interview on “Mornings On 1,” Lander laid out some of the strategies behind the potential lawsuits if the governor does not reverse her directive to the MTA to pause congestion pricing.

Lander said they are developing lawsuits with at least five strategies in mind: Three of those strategies would argue that Hochul’s push to delay the traffic plan violates environmental laws. One would focus on the impact of the delay on station accessibility projects mandated by an Americans with Disabilities Act settlement, and another would focus on the congestion pricing law itself — arguing that it explicitly gives the MTA -- not the governor -- the power to make that decision.

“The subways are the lifeblood of New York City for everyone and that's why everyone needs to see, wants to see, the investments that will make the trains run faster, more efficient, more accessible, and congestion pricing is both the way to do it, and the law in the state of New York,” Lander said.

The congestion pricing toll would have imposed a $15 base fare for cars with E-ZPass tags entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, generating approximately $1 billion in funds that would go to infrastructure repairs to the subway system as well as funding part of the MTA’s capital plan.