Congestion Pricing
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City Issues Call for Pricing Tech Designs
Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city would today issue a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) for firms "with the ability to perform all or most of the services required to design, implement, operate and maintain a congestion pricing program." Though RFEI submissions will not constitute actual bids for contract, the city is hinting that the firm eventually chosen for the job will be selected from the RFEI pool -- assuming congestion pricing clears city and state lawmakers, of course.
August 28, 2007
Congestion Pricing News of the World
We can barely keep up with the international congestion pricing headlines these days:
August 27, 2007
DOT Seeks Assistant Commissioner for Congestion Pricing
Here's a job listing you're not going to find on Craigslist Westchester or in the Queens Tribune: The New York City Department of Transportation's new Office of Planning and Sustainability is (or was) looking for an Assistant Commissioner for Congestion Pricing.
August 24, 2007
Lew Fidler Laments Impending Loss of Parking Permit
The Daily Politics' Liz Benjamin captured this little off-the-cuff gem in her interview yesterday with Brooklyn Council member Lew Fidler. Fidler, who called the 17-member congestion pricing commission "a sham," is emerging as one of City Council's most outspoken congestion pricing critics:
August 24, 2007
Remainder of Federal Pot Goes to Toll Plans
Florida officials say HOT lanes are the answer to SoFla I-95 congestion
August 23, 2007
Pricing Panel Appointees Announced
From NYC.gov. Bios of the members after the jump.
August 21, 2007
Congestion Pricing Op-Art: The Joke’s on Whom?
Cartoonist, writer and former Ford Motor Company employee Bruce McCall offers this "Wouldn't it be funny if.." rendition of post-congestion pricing Manhattan, from Sunday's New York Times (click here for the full illustration). As with his confounding and flip Atlantic Yards illo from a year ago, it's hard to discern what McCall is trying to say here.
August 21, 2007
Staten Island PlaNYC Panel Tonight
Join Transportation Alternatives and the Citizens Committee for NYC at Everything Goes Book Café in St. George on Staten Island for a screening of Contested Streets, a one-hour documentary about New York's traffic crisis and how congestion pricing can solve it.
August 21, 2007
Wylde v. Brodsky on WNBC News Show
Yesterday on WNBC's "News Forum," Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City and congestion pricing panel appointee, went head-to-head with anti-pricing Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. While Brodsky once again recited the "tax on the working man" même chapter and verse, he failed, once again, to articulate an alternative plan to raise the money everyone agrees is necessary to shore up mass transit.
August 20, 2007