Congestion Pricing Opponents Find a New Spokesman
Move over Walter McCaffrey and Ken Klinger.
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Congestion Pricing Foes Will Go into Attack Mode
By Sarah Goodyear |
Crain’s New York Business reports that the group leading the campaign against congestion pricing will begin a lobbying blitz aimed at derailing Mayor Bloomberg’s pricing proposal next week, just as the mayor goes to Albany to try to win state legislators over to his PlaNYC initiative. The arguments to be mounted by the "Keep NYC […]
Congestion Pricing Populist Soundbite Contest
By Aaron Naparstek |
Why do Richard Brodsky and Walter McCaffrey get to have all of the populist soundbite fun? Last Friday, in a story about the Committee to Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free stepping up its lobbying efforts, the Daily Politics blog published this gem of a rallying cry from pro-congestion lobbyist Walter McCaffrey: "You are in the […]
Daily News to Congestion Pricing Opponents: “Your Fault”
By Brad Aaron |
With higher gas prices pushing drivers onto the city’s trains and buses, the Daily News today blasted Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Dems for passing up the billions of dollars that congestion pricing would have brought to MTA coffers. The trends prove that the theory of congestion pricing was valid: When the cost of driving […]
Pricing Friends and Foes Find Common Ground in Shoup
By Aaron Naparstek |
Matthew Schuerman at the Observer reports that New York City congestion pricing opponents sought to commission UCLA urban planning guru Donald Shoup to do a study of New York City’s parking policies. Shoup declined their request. Presumably, congestion pricing opponents hoped a Shoup study might show that New York City could solve some portion of […]
As Anti-Pricing Arguments Fall Away, It’s Just Parking & Politics
By Brad Aaron |
Over the weekend, City Council Member David Weprin and "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free" spokesman Walter McCaffrey got a lot of press by casting doubt on whether congestion pricing revenues would, as promised, be invested in transit. It looks like a plan was already in the works to allay that fear. The Daily News reports: […]
Traffic Relief Advocates: Meet Your Opponents
By Aaron Naparstek |
Front row, left to right: Councilmember Melinda Katz, Councilmember Leroy Comrie, Councilmember Helen Sears, Councilmember David Weprin, Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free spokesman Walter McCaffrey, Ray Irrera from the Queens Chamber of Commerce is behind McCaffrey, Joe Conley of Queens Community Board 2 and John Corlett from AAA. (Photo: Aaron Naparstek) In response to the Partnership for New York City’s report, […]