Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission

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 […]

NYC Car Commuters Are Wealthier and Cops All Drive to Work

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 56 Comments

I’m not sure that this particular set of facts matters one bit to Traffic Mitigation Commission member Richard Brodsky, who claims to represent the little guy in the congestion pricing debate, but New York City’s Independent Budget Office released a report today demolishing the argument that pricing is unfair to the poor and working class […]

Congestion Panel Considers Shrinking Zone and Tolling Bridges

By Brad Aaron | Dec 3, 2007 | 7 Comments

The Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission wants to reduce the size of the proposed congestion pricing zone, replace cameras with higher parking fees, and possibly toll the East River bridges, according to a (subscription only) story by Erik Engquist in Crain’s New York Business today. A few of the steps under consideration: moving the northern boundary […]

Congestion Panel Meets Amidst Q Poll Parsing

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2007 | 7 Comments

The third meeting of the 17-member Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission will be held at 2:00 this afternoon at the offices of Hughes Hubbard and Reed, 1 Battery Park Plaza (24 State St. @ Pearl St.), 10th Floor, in Manhattan. Today’s event comes on the heels of a new Quinnipiac Poll, released yesterday, that shows support […]

Big Builders Explain Why Congestion Pricing is Important

By Jason Varone | Nov 8, 2007 | 4 Comments

In a letter to Marc Shaw, Chairman of the New York City Traffic Mitigation Commission, the New York Building Congress urged the Commission to support a congestion pricing plan that dedicates all revenues to capital improvements for the city’s transit system. The NYBC also indicated their support for the MTA’s propsed fare hike "as merely […]

Staten Islanders Keeping an Open Mind on Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 6, 2007 | 25 Comments

"Walking is Transportation" blogger Dan Icolari has extensive coverage of last night’s seventh and final Traffic Mitigation Commission hearing on Staten Island. He reports "a notable unanimity" among Staten Island’s elected representatives. "Even South Shore Republican Councilman Vincent Ignizio — a reliable foe of government whose salary is paid by government — said that despite […]

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