Congestion Pricing
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Report: MTA’s Barely Funded Capital Plan Badly Needs Congestion Pricing Cash
The MTA's current rehabilitation program is being starved of funding due to the state's failure to enact congestion pricing, among other things.
August 19, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines: Let’s Call Bullshit on This Edition
We're mad as hell, too, over why a pollution-control plan needs such a lengthy assessment of its environmental impact.
August 18, 2021
De Blasio to MTA: 16-Month Congestion Pricing Environmental Review Is ‘Ridiculous’
The mayor is the latest to accuse the governor and his transit henchmen of slow-walking the not-controversial-at-all-unless-you-love-cars plan. (Look at the face he made!)
August 17, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines: NY Times Scoop-a-Thon Edition
Hat-tip to Dana Rubinstein and Winnie Hu of the New York Times for their congestion pricing story on Monday. Plus other news.
August 17, 2021
The Slow Walk: MTA Has Not Met with Environmental Leaders Vital to Congestion Pricing — But Feds Blame MTA for That
Advocates have not heard from the MTA about congestion pricing, even though the authority must include environmental justice in its assessment of the tolls — and the federal government is waiting for action.
August 6, 2021
KOMANOFF: With Cuomo Sidelined, the MTA Must Get Congestion Pricing Done
Leaving NYC’s congestion-pricing program to wander and die in Albany's dysfunction over Gov. Cuomo is not acceptable.
August 4, 2021
Mayor Says State Must Act ‘Urgently’ On Congestion Pricing — Then Sets July 2022 Goal!
"The state and the MTA have to act and expedite the environmental assessment so we can get going," de Blasio said. "By June, all of the work should be done, and shovels should go in the ground by July ... of next year."
July 15, 2021
KOMANOFF: Mayors Have a Congestion Pricing Ace Card — Here’s How to Play It
Gov. Cuomo is clearly stalling congestion pricing, according to Charles Komanoff, one of the few true experts on the central business district tolling plan. Here's how it can be saved.
July 14, 2021
THE BRUUUUCE EXCUSE: Jersey Pol Cites Springsteen as a Reason to Oppose Congestion Pricing
"Springsteen's on Broadway, so everyone in New Jersey is going to Broadway and people [are] having a lot of trouble now for the first time really getting in and out of the city," Rep. Mikie Sherrill.
July 1, 2021
The MTA’s Lack of Urgency on Congestion Pricing is Very Unnerving: Advocates
It's clear! Gov. Cuomo is in no rush to implement congestion pricing.
June 24, 2021
