Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Pricing Panel Appointees Announced

By Brad Aaron | | 30 Comments
From NYC.gov. Bios of the members after the jump. Mayor Michael Bloomberg today joined Governor Eliot Spitzer, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith, Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to announce appointments to the New York City Traffic Mitigation Congestion Commission established […]

Congestion Pricing Op-Art: The Joke’s on Whom?

By Brad Aaron | | 18 Comments
Cartoonist, writer and former Ford Motor Company employee Bruce McCall offers this "Wouldn’t it be funny if.." rendition of post-congestion pricing Manhattan, from Sunday’s New York Times (click here for the full illustration). As with his confounding and flip Atlantic Yards illo from a year ago, it’s hard to discern what McCall is trying to say here. Or is […]

Staten Island PlaNYC Panel Tonight

By Jason Varone | | No Comments
Join Transportation Alternatives and the Citizens Committee for NYC at Everything Goes Book Café in St. George on Staten Island for a screening of Contested Streets, a one-hour documentary about New York’s traffic crisis and how congestion pricing can solve it. They’ll be following up with information about transit improvements coming to Staten Island as […]

Wylde v. Brodsky on WNBC News Show

By Brad Aaron | | 6 Comments
Yesterday on WNBC’s "News Forum," Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City and congestion pricing panel appointee, went head-to-head with anti-pricing Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. While Brodsky once again recited the "tax on the working man" même chapter and verse, he failed, once again, to articulate an alternative plan to raise […]

Quinn Makes Pricing Panel Picks

By Brad Aaron | | 14 Comments
From Elizabeth Benjamin at The Daily Politics: Aides to Council Speaker Christine Quinn are calling Council members this morning with the news that none of them made the cut when it came to her three appointments to the 17-member city/state commission that will decide the fate of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. According to Council […]

London Reaps Pricing Benefits

By Sarah Goodyear | | 4 Comments
From the newsletter of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign comes an inspiring summation of the effects of congestion pricing in London since the program’s inception in 2003, gleaned from Transport for London‘s annual report: Traffic levels in central London were about 20% lower in 2006 than in 2002, the year before pricing began. Bicycle use in […]
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