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Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission Opens for Business
Westchester Assembly member Richard Brodsky on Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal: "My problem is that I don't understand what you've proposed."
September 26, 2007
Pricing Panel Appointees Announced
From NYC.gov. Bios of the members after the jump.
August 21, 2007
Pricing is Alive. JFK Rail Link and SMART Fund May be Dead.
Annie Karni reports in today's New York Sun that the outlines of a congestion pricing bill may be hammered out in Albany before Memorial Day, though not exactly as Mayor Bloomberg initially proposed.
May 21, 2007
PlanNYC’s Public Political Push Starts Today
From a press release that just came across the Streetsblog transom:
May 14, 2007
Gene Russianoff on the MTA’s Day of Reckoning
Gene Russianoff, Senior Attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, has been New York City's leading transit advocate for decades. Streetsblog recently spoke with Gene about the MTA's impending fiscal crises and other transit issues.
May 4, 2007
Is a 1.3 mph Increase in Crosstown Traffic Speed “Innovative?”
The Staten Island Advance reports on Monday's press conference outlining the qualities that leading City Council members would like to see in the next DOT Commissioner. The Bloomberg Administration
responded to the Council with the following statement:
February 7, 2007
Help Wanted at DOT: Creative Thinkers Encouraged to Apply
Chairman of the City Council Transportation Committee, John C. Liu, praised outgoing DOT commissioner Iris Weinshall and called for an innovative thinker as her successor.
February 6, 2007
Gov. Spitzer Transition Team Transpo Committee Named
It includes some leading members of the congestion charging brainstrust and some big MTA reformers. Via Chuck Bennett at AMNY:
November 20, 2006
Straphangers’ Russianoff Will be Named to Spitzer Team
Streetsblog has learned that Gene Russianoff, executive director of the Straphangers Campaign, will be named as a member of Governor-Elect Eliot Spitzer's transition team transportation committee. The announcement is likely to be made tomorrow. Russianoff says, "No comment." Unlike yesterday's inaccurate tip about the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability this item seems to be solid.
November 15, 2006