Congestion Pricing
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Congestion Pricing Endgame Begins
With less than four weeks remaining for the city to meet the $354 million federal deadline, lawmakers are positioning themselves on one side of the other of the congestion pricing debate, as state and city prime movers quietly ready for "negotiations."
March 4, 2008
Sander Makes the Case for MTA Capital Plan and Pricing
A map presented by Lee Sander shows routes of short-term transit improvements (slide available in this PDF).
March 3, 2008
Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks.
Just two of the 17 members of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, Assemblymen Richard Brodsky and Herman "Denny" Farrell, voted against the revised congestion pricing plan that now awaits approval by the City Council and state legislators, all of which must happen by March 31 if the city is to receive $354 million in federal funds for upfront citywide transit improvements.
March 3, 2008
Hakeem Jeffries Stands With Westchester on Congestion Pricing
With a massive, mid-day traffic jam on the Brooklyn Bridge helping to set the scene, Richard Brodsky kicked off his City Hall press conference yesterday with an invitation to the scores of civic groups pushing for congestion pricing. Or maybe it was a threat.
February 29, 2008
Bloomberg Pitches Pricing to Brooklyn Assembly Members
From The Daily Politics: Mayor Bloomberg hosted members of the Brooklyn Assembly delegation at Gracie Mansion this morning as part of his ongoing lobbying effort on congestion pricing, which the Legislature must sign off on by the end of next month in order to land the full $354 million pledged by the US DOT. About … Continued
February 29, 2008
The Brodsky Alternative, Take Two: $6.50 to Enter a Cab
His license plate rationing scheme beloved by none, this afternoon Assemblyman Richard Brodsky offered his second congestion pricing alternative: raising the $2.50 taxi "drop charge" to $6.50, increasing fines for illegal parking and blocking the box, and further cutting the number of parking placards issued to government employees.
February 28, 2008
Viverito: Don’t Fall for Suburbanite Anti-Pricing “Nonsense”
We linked to it from Today's Headlines a few weeks ago, but this Metro op-ed from City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito is worth a repeat. Viverito, the first Puerto Rican council member to be elected in Manhattan's District 8, writes that, contrary to claims from "suburban elected officials from wealthy areas," congestion pricing "could provide immediate and measurable relief of traffic congestion while improving the air that all of my constituents breathe and the buses and subways that they ride daily."
February 28, 2008
Assemblyman Hevesi Clarifies Transit “Money Grab” Comment
Following our post yesterday about a newspaper article in which Andrew Hevesi was quoted as calling congestion pricing "a money grab to pay for mass transit," Streetsblog got a call from the Queens assemblyman's office.
February 26, 2008