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“Kheel Plan II” to Revive Free Transit Proposal for ’09 Races

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 2, 2008 | 26 Comments

“In for a penny, in for a pound” is how the Brits express what we Americans less elegantly call “the whole hog”: why do something halfway when you might as well go all the way? That’s the thinking behind Ted Kheel’s free-transit proposal. If an $8 congestion fee, as unsuccessfully proposed recently by Mayor […]

Gerson: Proposed Pricing Plan Misses the Mark

By Brad Aaron | Mar 11, 2008 | 33 Comments

Council Member Alan Gerson says the congestion pricing plan ignores the car-choked Canal Street corridor Yesterday we noted that District 1 City Council Member Alan Gerson was the only Manhattan representative to indicate that he would vote against the congestion pricing plan in its current form, according to an "unofficial roll call" conducted by the […]

Highlights of Monday’s Traffic Commission Meeting

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 19, 2007 | 2 Comments

Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky’s claim that congestion pricing "smacks the middle class" was not challenged by reporters after Monday’s meeting despite a recent IBO report that says otherwise. Brodsky said a carbon tax would be fairer and praised Mayor Bloomberg for suggesting it. Department of Transportation Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller has clearly been busy. At […]

Highlights of Yesterday’s Traffic Commission Meeting

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 47 Comments

| View | Upload your own Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller’s team at the Department of Transportation has been taking ideas offered up by Traffic Mitigation Commission members and running them through NYMTC’s regional traffic model. Schaller’s job is to help the Commission determine how effective each of these ideas will be in cutting traffic and […]

Henry Hudson Bridge Closed Until 2010, Unless You’re In a Car

By Brad Aaron | Aug 16, 2007 | 9 Comments

Earlier this summer, pedestrians and cyclists in northern Manhattan and the Bronx were surprised to learn that the walkway on the Henry Hudson Bridge, which spans the Harlem River to connect Inwood Hill Park with the neighborhoods of Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale, would be closed due to construction. For three years. In 2004, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council […]