Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Congestion Charging on the Horizon for China’s Cities

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 18, 2013 | 6 Comments

Which Chinese city will be the first to try congestion pricing? Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai — megacities whose populations are on the scale of New York’s? Or second-tier but still mighty cities (think Chicago) like Hangzhou, Nanjing, or Xi’an? Road tolling à la American turnpikes and thruways is already extensive in China, as a means to […]

You Know What’s Fundamentally Regressive? NYC’s Current Toll System

By Ben Fried | Nov 27, 2013 | 29 Comments

Well, a few words from Andrew Cuomo made clear that fixing NYC’s broken road pricing system won’t be on the table before next year’s statewide elections. But some opponents of congestion pricing — notably, Eastern Queens City Council Member Mark Weprin — are warming to Sam Schwartz’s toll reform plan, which calls for a uniform […]

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Krugman: Costs of Driving Deserve Way More Attention

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 18, 2013 | No Comments

Two of the nation’s leading lefty commentators weighed in on transportation incentives last Friday, when both economist Paul Krugman at the New York Times and Matt Yglesias at Slate went on a congestion pricing kick. Krugman kicked things off by remarking that the surest way to reduce the costs imposed on society by drivers is to “get the incentives […]

Graphed: Support for Congestion Pricing Depends on How You Frame It

By Ben Fried | Feb 20, 2013 | 11 Comments

Toward the end of last week, City Council speaker and current 2013 mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn set off a burst of transportation policy buzz when she said she still supports congestion pricing but doesn’t expect it to get revived in Albany. Remember, though, that while risk-averse Albany electeds may try to preemptively dismiss road pricing […]

Quinn Says She Still Supports Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Feb 15, 2013 | 7 Comments

After some pressing from Capital political reporter Azi Paybarah, Christine Quinn followed up her evasive and pessimistic statements about congestion pricing this morning with a firmer but still pessimistic statement about her position: “I supported congestion pricing. I support congestion pricing. I do not see it coming back in Albany but my support for congestion […]

Chris Quinn: “I Don’t Anticipate Congestion Pricing Coming Back Around”

By Ben Fried | Feb 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

Dana Rubinstein reports that City Council speaker and current mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn is bearish on congestion pricing’s political prospects: “I don’t anticipate congestion pricing coming back around,” City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told an audience at New York Law School today, when asked about its near-term future. “It didn’t do well and I don’t […]

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