Now that Governor Hochul has — in what the Times calls a “stunning” reversal — halted the congestion pricing scheme that would have tolled drivers $15 for the privilege of entering lower Manhattan, will the Metropolitan Transportation Authority clean up its budgetary act? The MTA, after all, was the driving force for the plan for extracting $1 billion a year from area motorists to bail out the transit agency’s self-made budgetary disaster.