Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Anti-Congestion Pricing Group Suggests Alternatives

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2007 | 19 Comments

While waiting for Walter McCaffrey to send over an official version (he sent it — download it here), we managed to get a hold of a bootleg copy of the executive summary of the Committee to Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free’s new report. Willie Neuman has a write-up of the report in the Times today […]

Congestion Pricing, Hashed Out Over Pints

By Brad Aaron | Oct 11, 2007 | 10 Comments

It wasn’t your typical congestion pricing forum, but last night about 50 people got to hear the pros and cons of the Bloomberg plan debated in a relaxed, informal setting, with instructions from the moderators to keep drinking. The event, sponsored by the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers, brought together two proponents and two critics […]

Bronx Traffic Relief Forum Tonight, 7:30pm, Riverdale Temple

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz is hosting a forum tonight on Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Speaking in favor of congestion pricing will be Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City. Speaking in opposition to congestion pricing will be Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities […]

MTA Says it Needs More Money for Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 8, 2007 | 10 Comments

The deal that produced the 17-member Congestion Mitigation Commission mandated the MTA to "submit comments on the Mayor’s [congestion pricing] plan" by October 1, 2007. In these comments, the MTA was instructed to provide the Commission with three items: (a) a description of the additional capital needs required for implementation; (b) proposed utilization of any […]

Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 5, 2007 | 36 Comments

The daily scene on SoHo’s Crosby Street, jammed with illegally parked government employees. The Observer reported on Wednesday that Walter McCaffrey’s Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free recently solicited UCLA parking policy guru Donald Shoup to do a study of curbside parking policy in New York. Carolyn Konheim, a Brooklyn-based transportation consultant […]

Pricing Friends and Foes Find Common Ground in Shoup

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2007 | 9 Comments

Matthew Schuerman at the Observer reports that New York City congestion pricing opponents sought to commission UCLA urban planning guru Donald Shoup to do a study of New York City’s parking policies. Shoup declined their request. Presumably, congestion pricing opponents hoped a Shoup study might show that New York City could solve some portion of […]

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