Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wastefulness

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 6, 2012 | 19 Comments

The Republican presidential campaign recently produced a couple of characteristic bits of what Americans, for lack of a better word, call “news”: Newt Gingrich declaring that New Yorkers “live in high rises and ride the subway” and thus don’t care about gasoline prices; and Tea Party “activists” in Virginia, Florida and Maine convinced that smart-growth […]

Komanoff: 2,000 New Cabs Will Add as Much Traffic as 80,000 Private Cars

By Ben Fried | Jan 20, 2012 | 20 Comments

Transportation analyst and Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff is out with a piece in Reuters today that examines the traffic impacts of adding 2,000 new yellow taxis to Manhattan streets, and it’s not pretty. As part of the grand bargain struck between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo that will create a new class of […]

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An Animated Argument For Congestion Pricing

By Lewis Lehe | Jan 6, 2012 | No Comments

In 1951, Milton Friedman coauthored a paper on road pricing. It would be a mere footnote in both Friedman’s career and in the intellectual history of road pricing, if not for one sci-fi flourish: The authors propose painting radioactive material alongside expressways, so that road operators can charge drivers using car-mounted geiger counters. Obviously, this […]

Can the 99 Percent Movement Reinvigorate Congestion Pricing?

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 5, 2011 | 18 Comments

Not yet three months old, Occupy Wall Street stands this week on the threshold of its first big concrete win. Governor Andrew Cuomo has called a special session of the New York State Legislature, reportedly to recalibrate the state income tax to draw more from the one or two percent at the top and less […]

Cuomo: College Should Be Priced Rationally. Roads? Not So Much.

By Ben Fried | Aug 9, 2011 | 15 Comments

At a press conference today, Governor Cuomo touted a new plan to introduce a “rational” pricing mechanism to help the state provide critical resources to New York residents. He was talking, of course, about SUNY tuition, which will be structured to rise five percent a year for the next five years. As for introducing a […]

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Study: Building Roads to Cure Congestion Is an Exercise in Futility

By Tanya Snyder | May 31, 2011 | No Comments

We hear it all the time: The road lobby insists that the only way to reduce mind-numbing traffic congestion on the roads they built is to build new roads. Federal funding gives huge blank checks to state DOTs, which tend to prioritize road building over transit, bridge maintenance or anything else. But mounting evidence suggests […]

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