Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Traffic Relief Advocates: Meet Your Opponents

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 6, 2006 | 30 Comments

Front row, left to right: Councilmember Melinda Katz, Councilmember Leroy Comrie, Councilmember Helen Sears, Councilmember David Weprin, Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free spokesman Walter McCaffrey, Ray Irrera from the Queens Chamber of Commerce is behind McCaffrey, Joe Conley of Queens Community Board 2 and John Corlett from AAA. (Photo: Aaron Naparstek) In response to the Partnership for New York City’s report, […]

Traffic Congestion: Sponsored by Your Local Media

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 5, 2006 | 7 Comments

Going through my morning headline round-up I clicked on ABC Channel 7’s story, Should There be Tolls in Manhattan? While my eye was being drawn to the giant, red "Lukoil: We Love Cars" ad banner (What genius came up with, "Traffic: Sponsored by Lukoil?"), an animated little Gen Y hipster wearing a Toyota.com t-shirt jumped out […]

Today’s Congestion Headlines

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 5, 2006 | 2 Comments

Study Discovers $13+ Billion in Annual Costs Due to Traffic Congestion (PFNYC)Region Loses as Many as 52,000 Jobs Every Year Mayor Says Fee on Peak Traffic Is Not Likely (NYT) Fees To Ease Midtown Traffic Jams May Get a New Look From City Hall (Sun) Drivers get brake on congest tax (News) Choked Streets Cost City […]

Growth or Gridlock?

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 4, 2006 | 13 Comments

This morning, the Partnership for New York City publicly released its long-awaited study, Growth or Gridlock: The Economic Case for Traffic Relief and Transit Improvements for a Greater New York. London’s congestion charging initiative was kick-started, in large part, by a similar report published by London First, that city’s version of the Partnership. From today’s report: Looking at […]

Congestion Charging in New York City: The Political Bloodbath

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 4, 2006 | 11 Comments

Though many New Yorkers are learning about congestion charging for the first time this week, the transportation policy community has been working to sell this idea to a resistant public for more than three decades. What happens when Nobel Prize winning theory meets bare-fisted New York City politics? A heavily condensed version of this story ran in this week’s […]

A Brief History of New York City Congestion Charging

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 4, 2006 | 14 Comments

Car-Free lunchtime on Madison Avenue, April 19, 1971. New York City policy-makers haven’t seriously considered traffic reduction since the Lindsay Administration. (Image courtesy of Jeff Zupan) This week’s New York Magazine publishes a brief timeline of the history of congestion charging in New York City, adapted from a much lengthier article that I reported and wrote a […]

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