Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Congestion pricing: an idea whose time is here.

SAVE US! Congress Could Unstick Congestion Pricing … If It Wanted To

By Dave Colon | May 7, 2020 | No Comments

The revenue-raising toll plan that was approved in Albany last year could get out of administrative purgatory in Washington if New York City's Congressional delegation plays its cards right.

Former NYC Traffic Commissioner Sam Schwartz. Photo: Courtesy NY Daily News

KOMANOFF: ‘Gridlock Sam’ Ups The Ante

By Charles Komanoff | May 1, 2020 | No Comments

You gotta hand it to “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz. Here's why.

Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images via Wikimedia Commons

KOMANOFF: Coronavirus Will Go Away, Congestion Pricing Must Not

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 3, 2020 | No Comments

All four bedrock conditions that justified congestion pricing in the first place will almost certainly remain after COVID-19.

Removing cars and trucks from 42nd Street and replacing buses with a modern, low-flow, light-rail line would allow the full width of this crowded street to be used for a richly landscaped greenway and sustainable transport.
Illustration: Roxanne Warren

Op-Ed: For a Safe, Healthy City, We Need an Auto-Free Zone in Manhattan

By George Haikalis and Roxanne Warren | Apr 1, 2020 | No Comments

COVID-19 underscores that closing streets to traffic and enhancing amenities in the crowded core will be vital to the survival of urban America.

Damn, you're telling me scenes like this have almost bankrupted the MTA? Photo: Kate Hinds

Advocates: MTA’s Finance Quick Fix Should Not Become Permanent

By Dave Colon | Apr 1, 2020 | No Comments

State budget negotiators are considering touching the ultimate third-rail of MTA funding — raiding revenue sources that are earmarked for capital improvements — in order to stave off an immediate fiscal collapse.

The mayor in his natural habitat: a taxpayer-funded SUV.

Komanoff: De Blasio — Even Now — Is MIA on Breaking the Car Culture

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 25, 2020 | No Comments

The mayor's actions and utterances show again and again that he lives inside a "windshield world."

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