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Jessica Lappin: Congestion Pricing Advocate
This recent constituent e-mail shows that Council Member Jessica Lappin's lukewarm support for congestion pricing seems to have turned into full-fledged support now that the proposal has no chance of being implemented (taking a page out of Assemblywoman Joan Millman's book). In Lappin's defense, she did vote for pricing when it came before the council. But it might have been helpful had she found her voice a few months -- or even weeks -- before the plan went to Albany.
April 15, 2008
What Glick’s District Will Lose Without Congestion Pricing
With the fate of congestion pricing likely to be decided over the weekend, we're going to beat this drum some more this afternoon.
April 4, 2008
What Your District Loses Without Congestion Pricing
The Campaign for New York's Future has some handy fact sheets on the transit upgrades outlined in the MTA 2008-2013 Capital Plan, broken down by city and state electoral districts. Since many of these projects will be threatened without the hundreds of millions in annual revenues expected from congestion pricing, some legislators may need to be reminded of what's at stake.
April 4, 2008
Glick Worried Pricing Will Make Air Quality Worse
Reader Sarah Ferguson reports that Assembly Member Deborah Glick (right), who represents Lower Manhattan, has come up with a novel twist on Richard Brodsky's call for further environmental review of congestion pricing. Read on for the full story, and keep making those phone calls. We want to know what else legislators are telling their constituents today.
April 3, 2008
Sadik-Khan: What We Lose Without Congestion Pricing [Updated]
Ben Fried reports live from the City Council congestion pricing hearing, underway at City Hall:
March 24, 2008
Ads Pitch Pricing Benefits to Transit-Taking Majority
With the March 31 deadline to qualify for $354M in federal transit funds approaching, the Campaign for New York's Future and the Empire State Transportation Alliance have rolled out an ad campaign to get the public behind congestion pricing.
February 25, 2008
To Lubricate Street Life, Lower the Unlimited Fare
Yesterday around 10 a.m. I got on the number 3 subway line at Bergen Street in Brooklyn, where I easily found a seat. As usual, I noticed that there was space on the baby-blue benches all the way up to 96th Street, where I switched trains to go to Columbia University at 116th Street. Only the last few stops on the 1 train were crowded.
February 15, 2008
Has Richard Brodsky Ever Paid a Subway Fare?
Television news legend Gabe Pressman hosted a debate on congestion pricing between Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky and Partnership for New York City President Kathy Wylde on Friday. The transcript is online at WNBC and it's worth a read if you want to see Wylde catch Brodsky in a couple of small but significant mistruths and get a sense of the arguments that free motoring advocates are using to try to kill the Traffic Commission's anti-gridlock plan.
February 11, 2008
Are Subway Riders the Angriest Commuters?
The Times has been running a series this month, called Next Stop, about the experience of commuting in the New York metro region. Reporter Billie Cohen took a different route to or from Manhattan every weekday, riding all manner of buses, trains, and subways. No bike commutes so far (and with just a few days left in the series it's probably safe to assume there won't be any).
January 29, 2008
Highlights of the “Equal Tolls, Unequal Access” Discussion
April Greene reports on Monday's congestion pricing panel discussion at the New School:
December 13, 2007