Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Queens Chamber of Commerce

Tony Avella and David Weprin Launch Preemptive Attack on NYC Toll Reform

By Stephen Miller | Dec 13, 2013 | 28 Comments

Remember these guys? This morning, State Senator Tony Avella and Assembly Member David Weprin stood at traffic-choked Queensboro Plaza to say they don’t care if the Move NY toll reform plan reduces tolls on bridges near their eastern Queens districts — they refuse to support any proposal that adds tolls to East River crossings. In a […]

We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany?

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 2, 2008 | 9 Comments

This morning’s Crain’s Insider names Streetsblog one of the winners of Monday’s congestion pricing vote in City Council. While we’re honored, no one around here is spiking the ball or dancing in the end zone until New York’s famously dysfunctional state legislature is done doing whatever it is they’re going to do to the plan. […]

Responses to $354 Million Federal Congestion Pricing Grant

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 14, 2007 | 29 Comments

Here are two initial responses to this morning’s news that the US DOT will grant New York City $354 million to implement Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan: Walter McCaffrey, right, a former city councilman from Queens who has been coordinating opposition to the mayor’s plan on behalf of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, The Automobile […]

Congestion Pricing Questions the Mayor Will Need to Answer

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 7, 2007 | 23 Comments

New York State Assembly Member Deborah Glick represents Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Tribeca and a good piece of Chinatown and Lower Manhattan. Encompassing the Holland Tunnel, Canal Street and a section of the Westside Highway, her district suffers from some of the worst traffic congestion in all of New York City. Transit-rich and offering some of […]

Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 54 Comments

Westchester Democrat Richard Brodsky has emerged as the State Assembly’s leading critic of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Later today Brodsky will release a report on the steps of City Hall characterizing the Mayor’s congestion pricing plan as a regressive tax that puts most of the burden on poor and middle-income drivers (and ignoring the […]

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 […]

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