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TSTC Launches “Mobilizing the Region” Blog

By Brad Aaron | Nov 5, 2007 | 4 Comments

For those who’ve come to rely on Mobilizing the Region, the always informative newsletter from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, TSTC has some bad news — and some very, very good news. The bad news is the newsletter will soon be discontinued. The very, very good news is that it will be replaced by the new […]

Fact Check: Congestion Pricing is Not a “Regressive Tax”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 14 Comments

One of the most oft-repeated slams against congestion pricing we heard at this week’s Congestion Mitigation Committee hearings is that congestion pricing would be a "regressive tax," an unfair burden to poorer New Yorkers. Is congestion pricing regressive? The data suggests otherwise. As the chart above shows, even in Brooklyn Council member Lew Fidler’s heavily […]

Congestion Pricing Supporters Speak Up in Queens

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 10 Comments

Meghan Goth reports: With city buses slogging their way past double-parked cars on Archer Avenue just outside, Queens community members and elected officials testified on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program at York College Performing Arts Center last night. The Traffic Congestion Mitigation hearing, one of seven being held around […]

State Opposes City Plan for Hell’s Kitchen Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 24, 2007 | 9 Comments

In June we reported on the city’s effort to bring some 20,000 additional parking spaces to the Hudson Yards area on the far West Side, via a rezoning provision adopted in 2005. Though it’s a remnant of the failed stadium plan, the Bloomberg administration nonetheless intends to hold on the parking component, going so far […]

Who Are Anti-Pricing Pols Really Looking Out For?

By Jason Varone | Oct 19, 2007 | 10 Comments

Responding to some politicians’ claims that congestion pricing is a "regressive tax" that would impact "working stiffs" who must drive to their jobs, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the Pratt Center for Community Development have compiled data, broken down by district, showing that the vast majority of commuters in New York City and surrounding counties […]

Variable Pricing at MTA Bridges and Tunnels Would Ease Traffic

By Jason Varone | Sep 26, 2007 | 8 Comments

Over the past few weeks, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign has been collaborating with environmental economist Charles Komanoff to assess the impact of various value-pricing scenarios on travel patterns at MTA toll facilities, like the Throgs Neck Bridge, at right. From this week’s Mobilizing the Region: A TSTC analysis recommends that the MTA enact variable tolls […]

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