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Newsday Endorses Move NY for 2016, While the Times Misses Its Chance
Two of the region's papers laid out their Albany 2016 agendas in New Year’s weekend editorials. Both led with ethics reform, but the similarities ended there. One paper boldly called on the legislature to "adopt some version of the innovative Move NY tolling-and-congestion pricing plan." The other was silent on transit and traffic, even as it spurred Gov. Andrew Cuomo to "lead on climate change.”
January 4, 2016
4 Things Tony Avella and David Weprin Get Totally Wrong About Toll Reform
No, the past nine years weren't just a dream and you didn't wake up in 2006. State senators David Weprin and Tony Avella, the Queens Civic Congress, and a few other Queens elected officials really did put on a press conference yesterday to guard against the possibility that New York might put a rational price on the East River bridges, cursing the city with less traffic, faster bus service, and the absence of honking.
December 7, 2015
A Flat “Congestion Charge” for Taxis and Uber: Yea or Nay?
Would a new surcharge on taxi and for-hire vehicle trips in Manhattan below 59th Street thin out traffic on congested streets? Not much it won't, according to transportation economist Charles Komanoff, whose traffic analysis has helped shape the Move NY toll reform campaign.
December 4, 2015
Tell Cornell — and Electeds — How You Want to Fix NYC Congestion
Want to tell elected officials what you think should be done about New York City traffic? Here's a way to pool your policy suggestions with other New Yorkers and reach elected officials beyond your district.
November 24, 2015
City Council’s Progressive Caucus Endorses Move NY Toll Reform
The City Council has become the strongest source of political momentum for the Move New York toll reform plan. Today the council's Progressive Caucus announced its support for Move NY, with 14 of the bloc's 19 members voting to endorse, according to the Daily News.
October 29, 2015
Rodriguez Champions Toll Reform in Broad Vision for NYC Transportation
Reforming New York's broken road pricing and parking policies top an extensive list of transportation priorities from City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez, which he unveiled this morning in a speech at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation.
October 5, 2015
Why Is There So Much Traffic in NYC? It’s the Free Roads, Stupid
Since the de Blasio administration attempted to cap for-hire cars this summer, the debate over Manhattan traffic has gotten louder, but not more productive. Uber claimed it definitely wasn't the problem. Some council members wondered if bike lanes were slowing down cars. Amid all the noise, something important got lost.
September 17, 2015
The Link Between Bridge Toll Dysfunction and Unsafe Streets
Did “toll shopping” figure in the death last week of cyclist Kevin Lopez in Long Island City?
August 12, 2015
The Politics of Road Pricing: Andrew Cuomo vs. Actual Polls
Andrew Cuomo styles himself as a guy who gets stuff done. That's what muscling through the Tappan Zee Bridge double-span boondoggle and the multi-billion dollar LaGuardia renovation is all about. But when reporters ask Cuomo about funding transit by putting a price on NYC's free bridges, he likes to portray himself as a helpless bystander, stymied by politics.
August 10, 2015
Prendergast’s Objections to Toll Reform Don’t Make Any Sense
On WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show this morning, MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast joined his boss Andrew Cuomo in dumping cold water on the Move NY toll reform plan as a way to fund the transit authority's capital program. Trouble is, his critiques don't make much sense.
July 30, 2015