Gov. Kathy Hochul repeatedly insisted Thursday that she talks to regular folks at New York City diners who support the controversial $9 toll — but one of the restaurants’ owners said the pol actually stopped coming,

Hochul had put the plan on "pause" in June just before the originally proposed toll of $15 was set to take effect.

City’s congestion pricing plan is back and set to kick in on Jan. 5, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday. But the daily toll — which Hochul put on indefinite hiatus this past June, three weeks before it was supposed to go into effect — will be $9 rather than the original planned toll of $15 for at least three years,