Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

New York City Kids Sing Their Support for Congestion Pricing

By Jason Varone | Jul 11, 2007 | 3 Comments

Environmental Defense, who are responsible for this excellent report on the health effects of autmobile traffic and these effective billboards, present this video of New York City kids urging lawmakers in Albany to pass congestion pricing. "Sheldon Silver do you care about the quality of our air?"

$300+ Million in Bus Improvements Held Hostage in Albany

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

One of the most destructive pieces of misinformation currently floating around the New York State Assembly is this oft-repeated line from Richard Brodsky’s newly released report: The City has no plan to improve mass transit prior to the implementation of congestion pricing. This is a serious if not fatal defect in the proposal in the […]

Brodsky Represents NYC’s Wealthiest Car Commuters

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 15 Comments

Here is a complete copy of Assembly Member Richard Brodsky’s "Interim Report and Inquiry" into New York City’s long-term planning and congestion pricing proposals. Brodsky, you may recall, is the powerful state lawmaker with the moneybag full of parking industry contributions. Brodsky’s 20-page report concludes: The Mayor deserves great credit for thinking seriously about the […]

McCaffrey: The Subway is Crowded. Let’s Keep it That Way.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 10 Comments

Walter McCaffrey’s Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free has torn a page from StreetFilms’ book and put out its very own propaganda video. The quiet, elegant two-minute SubFilm shows crowds of people using New York City’s subway system with quotes like, "Here come the sardines," mixed in. The producers clearly intended this […]

Queens Legislator Offers Congestion Pricing Torpedo

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 38 Comments

Assembly Member Rory Lancman from Fresh Meadows, Queens has sent a three-page letter to his fellow legislators soliciting their support for a legislative alternate to Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal and long-term planning ominbus bill, Sewell Chan reports. "Instead of threatening to beat New Yorkers over the head with a $2,000 a year stick if […]

Bloomberg Stadium Foes Urge Silver to Support Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 4 Comments

Then: "Honk No" to Mayor Bloomberg’s plan. Now: Stop honking and pay $8. Bloomberg’s West Side stadium foes are now his congestion pricing friends. Manhattan Community Boards 4, 5 and 6 are holding a joint public hearing on the PlaNYC congestion pricing proposal tonight at 6:00pm. In an interesting twist of politics, the West Side […]

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