Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Some Sort of Congestion Pricing Deal is Done

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 19, 2007 | 11 Comments

According to NY1, Governor Spitzer just announced "that the state has given the city the green light to proceed with the plan, but he stressed that no agreement has been reached on tolls." NY1 reports, "The agreement creates a commission of representatives from the mayor’s office and the governor’s office, City Council members, and State […]

Critical Transportation Reforms Sink With Pricing

By John Kaehny | Jul 18, 2007 | 7 Comments

An enforcement camera in London captures a motorist in the bus lane. Mayor Bloomberg’s strategy was to bundle all of the PlanNYC transportation reforms requiring legislative approval into one bill. The sinking of the congestion pricing ship took other victims with it. Lost with congestion pricing was legislation approving bus lane enforcement cameras, residential parking […]

The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2007 | 13 Comments

David Haskell, executive director of the Forum for Urban Design, and organizer of last week’s New York Bike-Share Project demonstration in Soho, says it’s time for New York City to ditch the London model and take a closer look at the traffic-reduction techniques Paris has implemented without congestion pricing. An op/ed in today’s New York […]

Who Better Represented “the Little Guy” in the Pricing Debate?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2007 | 22 Comments

New York State Assembly Members Jose Rivera, Richard Brodsky and Adriano Espaillat Mayor Bloomberg and the Campaign for New York’s Future never really seemed to get that the congestion pricing debate was fundamentally going to be a fight about class, and the widening divide between rich and poor in New York City. While the Mayor […]

Parking Reform: Reduce Congestion & Raise Money Minus Albany

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 22 Comments

With congestion pricing stalled in Albany gridlock, what’s next? What immediate measures can New York City take to reduce traffic congestion without having to go through Albany to implement them? How else might New York City reduce traffic congestion while raising a bit of money for transit, bicycling and pedestrian improvements? Back in May, Transportation […]

Bloomberg: NYC is Poorer Today Thanks to Albany Inaction

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 15 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg had harsh words for New York State’s Democratic leadership at today’s press conference in Brooklyn. Here is an abbreviated transcript of some of the question-and-answer period with the press: Is congestion pricing dead? I don’t know that it’s dead or alive. I think what is clear is that we have not submitted a […]

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