Mayor Bloomberg yesterday told people to lighten up after Gov. Spitzer rapped him for skipping town for a mogul’s meeting in Idaho instead of staying home with the federal deadline for passing congestion pricing just days away.
“I assume the governor was just joking, and it’s all in good fun,” the mayor said on his weekly WABC radio show, which he phoned in from Sun Valley.
Bloomberg spoke a day after Spitzer took a dig at him for jetting off to the tony town despite the Monday deadline set by federal officials for approving his congestion pricing plan in order to qualify for up to $500 million in federal transit grants.
“I hear the congestion in Sun Valley is tougher than the congestion in Manhattan right now,” Spitzer said Thursday.
The governor downplayed the dust-up yesterday.
“Wherever the mayor is, he’s on his cellphone, and we’ve been talking over the past couple of days. He has been obviously integral to every part of the conversations relating to congestion pricing . . . We couldn’t be more thrilled about that relationship.”