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Anti-Congestion Pricing Group Suggests Alternatives
While waiting for Walter McCaffrey to send over an official version (he sent it -- download it here), we managed to get a hold of a bootleg copy of the executive summary of the Committee to Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free's new report. Willie Neuman has a write-up of the report in the Times today as well.
October 12, 2007
Congestion Pricing, Hashed Out Over Pints
It wasn't your typical congestion pricing forum, but last night about 50 people got to hear the pros and cons of the Bloomberg plan debated in a relaxed, informal setting, with instructions from the moderators to keep drinking.
October 11, 2007
Pricing Friends and Foes Find Common Ground in Shoup
Matthew Schuerman at the Observer reports that New York City congestion pricing opponents sought to commission UCLA urban planning guru Donald Shoup to do a study of New York City's parking policies. Shoup declined their request. Presumably, congestion pricing opponents hoped a Shoup study might show that New York City could solve some portion of its traffic congestion problem through changes in on-street parking policy.
October 3, 2007
Crain’s: Congestion Pricing Approval is a “Near Certainty”
Contrary to some of the more pessimistic analyses that appeared after last week's congestion pricing deal (like ours, theirs and this one too), Crain's Erik Engquist writes that "details of the deal make approval of Manhattan driving fees a near certainty next year."
The article is for subscribers only on the Crain's web site:
July 23, 2007
McCaffrey: The Subway is Crowded. Let’s Keep it That Way.
Walter McCaffrey's Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free has torn a page from StreetFilms' book and put out its very own propaganda video.
July 10, 2007
Debunking the Attack on Congestion Pricing
As The Politicker's Azi Paybarah reported yesterday, the anti-traffic relief group, "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free"
re-released its report, "Congestion Pricing in the Central Business District: Let's Look Hard Before We Leap." Commissioned by the Queens Chamber of Commerce, the study calls into doubt the benefits of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed congestion pricing scheme, with some revised numbers from an earlier version they put out a few weeks ago.
May 23, 2007
Congestion Pricing Foes Will Go into Attack Mode
Crain's New York Business reports that the group leading the campaign against congestion pricing will begin a lobbying blitz aimed at derailing Mayor Bloomberg's pricing proposal next week, just as the mayor goes to Albany to try to win state legislators over to his PlaNYC initiative. The arguments to be mounted by the "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free Coalition" range from the speculative to the alarmist:
May 11, 2007