Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free

Pricing Friends and Foes Find Common Ground in Shoup

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2007 | 9 Comments

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 […]

Crain’s: Congestion Pricing Approval is a “Near Certainty”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 23, 2007 | 3 Comments

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 […]

McCaffrey: The Subway is Crowded. Let’s Keep it That Way.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 10 Comments

Walter McCaffrey’s Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free has torn a page from StreetFilms’ book and put out its very own propaganda video. The quiet, elegant two-minute SubFilm shows crowds of people using New York City’s subway system with quotes like, "Here come the sardines," mixed in. The producers clearly intended this […]

Debunking the Attack on Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | May 23, 2007 | 2 Comments

As The Politicker’s Azi Paybarah reported yesterday, the anti-traffic relief group, "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free" re-released its report, "Congestion Pricing in the Central Business District: Let’s Look Hard Before We Leap." Commissioned by the Queens Chamber of Commerce, the study calls into doubt the benefits of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed congestion pricing scheme, with some […]

Congestion Pricing Foes Will Go into Attack Mode

By Sarah Goodyear | May 11, 2007 | 25 Comments

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 […]