Congestion Mitigation Commission’s 2nd Meeting
The 17-member Commission will hold its second meeting in its process to determine the best way to reduce traffic congestion.
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Meeting: Congestion Pricing Advocates – Activate!
By Aaron Donovan |
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 […]
State Senator’s Car is Towed During Congestion Pricing Meeting
By Aaron Naparstek |
Sources who wish not to be named send along the following story: State Senator Martin Malave Dilan, who hasn’t yet come out in favor of congestion pricing despite the fact that only 2 percent of the people who live in his Brooklyn district are regular car commuters, was attending a congestion pricing meeting at State […]
State Assembly Meeting in Manhattan to Talk Congestion Pricing
By Aaron Naparstek |
Brooklyn Assembly Member Jim Brennan (right) tells me that he sees sentiment against Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan running at about "three- or four-to-one against" among his colleagues. Brennan suspects that the plan may not even pass the Republican-controlled Senate. While Brennan supports congestion pricing himself, he is concerned that advocates have "over-sold the benefits […]
Congestion Pricing Commission’s First Meeting
By Aaron Donovan |
From Crain’s Insider: The Congestion Pricing Commission will meet for the first time next week, bringing together the 17 people who must choose between Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s traffic mitigation plan and some other program. To qualify for a $354.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, a plan must involve a pricing component and […]
Upper East Side Town Hall Meeting: Congestion Pricing
By Aaron Donovan |
A town hall meeting entitled "ask your elected officials." We are told that this is expected to be dominated by discussions of congestion pricing. Expected attendees include: Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer Councilwoman Jessica Lappin State Senator Liz Kruger Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick Sponsored by: East 79th Street Neighborhood Association Manhattan Community Board 8 Carnegie Hill […]
Highway Boondoggles: Widening I-95 Across Connecticut
By Jeff Inglis and John Olivieri |
Last year Congress passed a multi-year transportation bill. Like previous bills, it gives tens of billions of dollars to states every year to spend with almost no strings attached. How much of this federal funding will state DOTs devote to expensive, traffic-inducing highway projects that further entrench car dependence and sprawl? In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the […]