Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Stockholm Voters OK Congestion Charging

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 18, 2006 | 3 Comments

From this morning’s International Herald Tribune: Near-complete results for the Sunday referendum showed that 51.7 percent of Stockholm voters approved the traffic toll, while 45.6 percent voted against it. The congestion fee was contested when city officials introduced it in a seven-month trial that ran between January and July. Public opinion swung in favor of […]

New York City’s Opinion-Makers Turn Attention to Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 13, 2006 | 13 Comments

Today’s Times Select, a subscriber-only web site, has published a lengthy manifesto on New York City traffic and transportation by Carolyn Curiel. It urges Mayor Bloomberg to listen to the ideas being generated by the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief, and suggests that his legacy depends on it. Increasingly, one gets the sense that the […]

An American Carwolf in London

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 11, 2006 | 1 Comment

Economist Charles Komanoff points Streetsblog to a news brief from London where Mayor Ken Livingstone insists that the U.S. Embassy owes a whopping $1.6 million in unpaid congestion charging fees: Embassy employees have not paid the charges £8 ($15) a day for any car entering central London, since July 2005, arguing that the charge is […]

Eyes on the Street: Demand Management

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 21, 2006 | 5 Comments

You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax. –Ancient Economic Adage

Congestion Pricing on Hold, Traffic Returns to Stockholm

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 10, 2006 | 1 Comment

Transponder on the dashboard of a car zipping through the traffic-free streets of Stockholm on January 3, 2006, the first day of that city’s congestion pricing experiment. (Photo: Papa Razzi1) Stockholm, Sweden’s seven-month congestion pricing experiment is on hold until a voter referendum in September. Alan Atkisson reports: Last year, the politics around the planned "congestion […]

Contested Seats

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 24, 2006 | 2 Comments

A correspondent reports: Last Thursday it was standing-room-only at the City Council screening of Contested Streets: Breaking NYC Gridlock. Over one hundred people packed the 75-seat hearing room at the invitation of Councilmember John Liu and other members of the City Council transportation committee. The new documentary film, co-produced by Transportation Alternatives and Mark Gorton, is proving […]

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