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Queens Pricing Opponent Is Right: $8 Is Crazy
Comrie is right -- $8 to drive into mid-Manhattan is nuts. The fee should be at least $40.
April 3, 2008
“Thums” Down and Zero Unispheres for Queens Pricing Supporters
Oppose congestion pricing and all this could be yours
March 31, 2008
What Western Queens Stands to Lose Without Congestion Pricing
Queens residents crash Friday's anti-pricing rally
March 31, 2008
Queens Pols Rally to Keep Using Gioia’s District as Their Doormat
Tony Avella, Leroy Comrie, Melinda Katz, David Weprin "and other possible members of the Queens Delegation" are holding an anti-congestion pricing rally tomorrow morning at 8:00 on the Queens side of the 59th Street Bridge, according to an e-mail from the Queens Civic Congress.
March 27, 2008
Silver Calls Hearing on Pricing and MTA Capital Plan
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will hold a hearing Thursday on how congestion pricing revenues would figure into the MTA's five-year capital plan. He will be joined by anti-pricing Assembly Members Richard Brodsky and Denny Farrell.
March 5, 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
Assemblyman Hevesi Slams Pricing as Transit “Money Grab”
At a Queens Community Board 5 meeting earlier this month, Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi made what may be the first attack against congestion pricing based on one of its primary selling points.
February 25, 2008
Queens Pricing Opponents Push a Fantasy Commuter Tax
Last week the Queens Civic Congress held an "MTA Capital Plan Forum," where members peddled their commuter tax revival plan to transit chief Elliot "Lee" Sander as an alternative to congestion pricing, which Sander says is vital to the future of his agency.
February 14, 2008
Queens State Senator Sabini Pleads to DWAI
State Senator John Sabini, of Queens, has pleaded guilty to Driving While Ability Impaired following an arrest for DWI in Albany last September.
February 6, 2008