Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

If Albany Lawmakers Don’t Go Back to Work, NYC Loses

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 12 Comments

Sounding frustrated, Mayor Bloomberg said in his radio address this weekend that it would be "absolutely ridiculous" for state lawmakers to leave hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to another city by rejecting New York City’s congestion pricing plan. Opponents of Mayor Bloomberg’s plan, like State Assembly Member Denny Farrell, a Democrat from Northern […]

Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 54 Comments

Westchester Democrat Richard Brodsky has emerged as the State Assembly’s leading critic of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Later today Brodsky will release a report on the steps of City Hall characterizing the Mayor’s congestion pricing plan as a regressive tax that puts most of the burden on poor and middle-income drivers (and ignoring the […]

Mayor and Assembly Headed to a Showdown Over Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 9 Comments

City Hall and the New York State Assembly may be headed to the biggest showdown since Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken (crossing the river back then was free but you had to use a row boat). Erik Engquist and Anne Michaud report in today’s Crain’s Insider: MAYOR MICHAEL […]

Today: Dueling Congestion Pricing Press Events

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

State Assembly Member Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) is releasing his report on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal on the steps of City Hall today at 2:00 pm. Billed as "the first thorough, independent, and fair-minded" analysis (Apparently, the Partnership for New York’s two-year study wasn’t thorough and Bruce Schaller’s massive body of research wasn’t independent […]

Mayor Speaks at Times Square Pricing Rally

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 6, 2007 | 4 Comments

Supporters of congestion pricing rallied yesterday in Times Square, urging state lawmakers to act by July 16 on Mayor Bloomberg’s initiative or risk losing $500 million in federal funds. "The time is now," said the mayor, according to the New York Post. "We cannot walk away from this opportunity." Shouting out to tourists in a […]

17 Reasons to Make Transit Free

By Brad Aaron | Jul 6, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Tyee, an independent online pub in British Columbia, weighs in with the first in a series of editorials making the case for free transit in the province. Citing the wishes of big city mayors (Michael Bloomberg and San Francisco’s Gavin Newsom) to eliminate the fare box, and listing a slew of cities that to […]

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