Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Parking Meters: The Congestion Pricing Controversy of 1932

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 30, 2007 | 3 Comments

By now we’re all familiar with the litany of complaints about the City’s new traffic control plan: It’s an unfair and burdensome new tax; it’s going to kill retail business and hurt the little guy; and most of all, it’s just plain "un-American." That, of course, is what critics are saying about congestion pricing in […]

Sadik-Khan: Many Initiatives Are Under Way…

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 30, 2007 | 7 Comments

Today’s Crain’s Insider, available to subscribers only, reports on the next steps for the Bloomberg Administration’s broader Long-Term Sustainability Plan now that congestion pricing has cleared its first hurdle in Albany: 7.30.07 Crain’s NY Business The Insider by Erik Engquist and Anne Michaud GREEN PLAN Closer to home NOW THAT the Legislature has passed a […]

Congestion Pricing Process Moves Forward in Albany

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 26, 2007 | 2 Comments

This afternoon the New York State Assembly voted 122-16 and the Senate voted 39-16 in favor of the process that would establish a 17-member commission to develop traffic mitigation measures for New York City. The commission’s plan would be required to produce a 6.3% reduction in average vehicle miles traveled in New York City. Mayor […]

French Revolution

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 26, 2007 | 18 Comments

Two lanes in the middle of this Parisian avenue have been set aside for the exclusive use of buses, bikes and taxis. Private automobiles have been squeezed into the margins. Serge Schemman has a great little essay on Parisian transportation and public space policy on the editorial page of today’s New York Times. I was […]

Congestion Pricing Bill, Take 3.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 24, 2007 | No Comments

Liz Benjamin has the latest scoop on congestion pricing legislation in Albany: The third version of a bill dealing with congestion mitigation in the city was introduced yesterday in both houses of the state Legislature. The Assembly and Senate are scheduled to return to Albany Thursday to take up this new bill – and nothing […]

Here is the State Senate’s Congestion Pricing Bill

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 24, 2007 | 12 Comments

Here, at last, is a draft copy of the New York State Senate congestion pricing "compromise" bill. The bill does not yet have a number and was never brought to a vote. It has been circulating since July 19. I still need to read through it and figure out exactly how it differs from what […]

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