Congestion Pricing Phone Banking
Call congestion pricing supporters to drum up enthusiasm at a critical moment.
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Meeting: Congestion Pricing Advocates – Activate!
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Transportation Alternatives is planning a massive organizing effort to win congestion pricing, but they need boots on the ground to make it happen. Join T.A. at their first volunteer night for congestion pricing activists. They will lay out their street outreach, phone banking and organizing for the fall. Bring your calendars as they develop their […]
KOMANOFF: Could a Once-a-Month Freebie Save Congestion Pricing?
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Even though congestion pricing will be a balm for the city and beneficial even for most of the drivers who resist it, perhaps it’s time for an easy layup to jumpstart the conversation: let’s give every household in the 12-county MTA region a single untolled trip per month into the congestion zone.
Time to Call Your Legislators About Congestion Pricing
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With mixed messages at best coming from Albany and time running out, state legislators need to hear from constituents who support congestion pricing. It’s clear that even in areas where pricing received unanimous support in the City Council, some state lawmakers are not getting the message. Here’s Bronx Assembly Member Ruben Diaz, Jr., via NY1: […]
Glick Worried Pricing Will Make Air Quality Worse
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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 […]
Crain’s: Congestion Pricing Approval is a “Near Certainty”
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Contrary to some of the more pessimistic analyses that appeared after last week’s congestion pricing deal (like ours, theirs and this one too), Crain’s Erik Engquist writes that "details of the deal make approval of Manhattan driving fees a near certainty next year." The article is for subscribers only on the Crain’s web site: 7.23.07 […]
Today: Dueling Congestion Pricing Press Events
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State Assembly Member Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) is releasing his report on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal on the steps of City Hall today at 2:00 pm. Billed as "the first thorough, independent, and fair-minded" analysis (Apparently, the Partnership for New York’s two-year study wasn’t thorough and Bruce Schaller’s massive body of research wasn’t independent […]