Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

What Glick’s District Will Lose Without Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Apr 4, 2008 | 21 Comments

With the fate of congestion pricing likely to be decided over the weekend, we’re going to beat this drum some more this afternoon. Yesterday we heard that Assembly Member Deborah Glick’s office told a constituent the congestion pricing bill could lead to worsening air quality. (Because, you know, building mass transit infrastructure will cancel out […]

Glick Worried Pricing Will Make Air Quality Worse

By Ben Fried | Apr 3, 2008 | 38 Comments

Reader Sarah Ferguson reports that Assembly Member Deborah Glick (right), who represents Lower Manhattan, has come up with a novel twist on Richard Brodsky’s call for further environmental review of congestion pricing. Read on for the full story, and keep making those phone calls. We want to know what else legislators are telling their constituents […]

Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks.

By Brad Aaron | Mar 3, 2008 | 17 Comments

Just two of the 17 members of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, Assemblymen Richard Brodsky and Herman “Denny” Farrell, voted against the revised congestion pricing plan that now awaits approval by the City Council and state legislators, all of which must happen by March 31 if the city is to receive $354 million in federal […]

Assemblyman Hevesi Clarifies Transit “Money Grab” Comment

By Brad Aaron | Feb 26, 2008 | 12 Comments

Following our post yesterday about a newspaper article in which Andrew Hevesi was quoted as calling congestion pricing "a money grab to pay for mass transit," Streetsblog got a call from the Queens assemblyman’s office. Aide Ashley Pillsbury wanted us to know that, while Hevesi is opposed to congestion pricing, he is a supporter of […]

We Are Breathing Oil in Our Big Cities

By Jason Varone | Feb 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

In three different studies presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science‘s annual meeting in Boston last weekend, researchers "provided mounting evidence that air pollution can both increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in the long-term and induce heart attacks within hours of traffic exposure." While the studies have yet to be released […]

Testify! Public Hearings on Congestion Pricing Tonight

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 24, 2008 | 7 Comments

I’ve been accused of "droning on" about congestion pricing here on Streetsblog, and not just by hostile commenters. Even Mark Gorton, our publisher, has mentioned that he’s sick of reading about it. Still, we continue to spill all of this ink over congestion pricing because it is far and away the most important game in […]

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