Congestion Pricing
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Highlights of the “Equal Tolls, Unequal Access” Discussion
April Greene reports on Monday's congestion pricing panel discussion at the New School:
December 13, 2007
Highlights of Yesterday’s Traffic Commission Meeting
Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller's team at the Department of Transportation has been taking ideas offered up by Traffic Mitigation Commission members and running them through NYMTC's regional traffic model. Schaller's job is to help the Commission determine how effective each of these ideas will be in cutting traffic and reducing total vehicle miles traveled in New York City. To keep its $354.5 million federal transportation grant, the City must reduce VMT 6.3 percent using road pricing.
December 11, 2007
NYC Car Commuters Are Wealthier and Cops All Drive to Work
I'm not sure that this particular set of facts matters one bit to Traffic Mitigation Commission member Richard Brodsky, who claims to represent the little guy in the congestion pricing debate, but New York City's Independent Budget Office released a report today demolishing the argument that pricing is unfair to the poor and working class (download it here).
December 11, 2007
Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing
If you're a New York City transportation policy geek but you've had enough of congestion pricing realpolitik and can't bear to sit through another Kathy Wylde vs. Walter McCaffrey slugfest, Monday evening's New School panel may be just the ticket. Equal Tolls, Unequal Access? Congestion Pricing and Its Historical Antecedents brings together an unusual group of academic experts and urban design practitioners to examine urban boundary-making through the ages. New School professor Gustav Peebles has written the following article for Streetsblog:
December 7, 2007
Pricing Alternatives Fail the “Reality Test”
A side-by-side comparison of PlaNYC congestion pricing and alternatives offered by pricing opponents shows that the Bloomberg proposal is the only one that would have an immediate impact on auto traffic while improving transit. Further, the report concludes that plans put forth by Congressman Anthony Weiner, Council Member Lew Fidler, and Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free would actually promote driving.
December 5, 2007
Congestion Panel Considers Shrinking Zone and Tolling Bridges
The Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission wants to reduce the size of the proposed congestion pricing zone, replace cameras with higher parking fees, and possibly toll the East River bridges, according to a (subscription only) story by Erik Engquist in Crain's New York Business today.
December 3, 2007
MTA Chief Lee Sander Gets Megamodal
The Fall 2007 issue of the NYU Rudin Center's New York Transportation Journal is out and for anyone looking to delve into some wonkish, big picture, regional transportation policy issues, it's worth a download.
November 30, 2007
NYC’s “Flawed” Traffic Plan Brought to You by… Toyota
Grim picture: A screenshot from the CBS Channel 2 web site.
November 29, 2007
Compromise “Ruled the Day” at Congestion Pricing Hearings
Source: Environmental Defense
November 29, 2007
T.A. Responds to Fidler’s Tax’n’Tunnel Pipe Dream
We probably shouldn't be lavishing any more attention on Lew Fidler's Tax'n'Tunnel proposal but Transportation Alternatives' Paul Steely White fired off a pretty good, concise response to the Daily News the other day:
November 28, 2007