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$300+ Million in Bus Improvements Held Hostage in Albany
One of the most destructive pieces of misinformation currently floating around the New York State Assembly is this oft-repeated line from Richard Brodsky's newly released report:
July 10, 2007
Queens Legislator Offers Congestion Pricing Torpedo
Assembly Member Rory Lancman from Fresh Meadows, Queens has sent a three-page letter to his fellow legislators soliciting their support for a legislative alternate to Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal and long-term planning ominbus bill, Sewell Chan reports.
July 10, 2007
It’s Getting Better All the Time
NYC is ChangingA StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr.
Running Time: 1 minute 55 seconds
July 9, 2007
Slow Going for New Bus Lanes
The Village Voice took a trip down lower Broadway earlier this week to see how smoothly the new bus lanes were flowing. The answer? Despite reports of stepped-up enforcement, change is not coming quickly to the traffic culture of Lower Manhattan -- as you can see from the picture at right, which shows a bus trying to lay claim to a spot in the "buses-only" lane.
July 5, 2007
Roberts: MTA Needs Congestion Pricing
When NYC Transit President Howard Roberts announced Monday -- to some ridicule -- that certain subway lines are overcrowded with little to no relief in sight, it was reported that the system would not be able to handle the influx of commuters who are expected to switch to transit should congestion pricing be implemented.
June 27, 2007
Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron
June 20, 2007
The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing
The Staten Island Advance ran an article last Thursday about a "perfect storm" of crushing Staten Island-bound traffic on the Gowanus Expressway and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. To give you a sense of the frustrated tone of the article, it was entitled "21-Month Nightmare: Agency Offers Zero Solutions for Verrazano Lane Mess." Here's how it began:
June 19, 2007
It’s the Bus Riders, Stupid.
Is Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan, a regressive tax, unfair to New York City's poor and working class?
June 15, 2007
Assembly Considers Bankrupting MTA to Reduce Congestion
From WCBS-TV via Second Ave. Sagas:
June 14, 2007
Queens Blogger Runs His Own Commuter Contest
By way of comment on Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal and, perhaps, in response to Transportation Alternatives' recent bike vs. subway vs. taxi commuter contest, the author of Queens Crap, a blog focused on local development issues, conducted his own rush hour comparison test. Here are his results:
May 24, 2007