Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

In Any Language, the Cost of Congestion Comes Through Loud and Clear

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 18, 2010 | 11 Comments

An analysis using the Balanced Transportation Analyzer shows how much time individual drivers steal from fellow drivers by choosing to drive into the New York City CBD. It’s not often that you get to see your work set off a Eureka moment for someone else — particularly when that someone is from a different culture. […]

Congestion Pricing Can Help Save Working NYC Families $2,300 Per Year

By Noah Kazis | Feb 16, 2010 | 2 Comments

Without congestion pricing, fare hikes will hit New York’s many transit-using families hard. Image: Ed Yourdon via Flickr. Without bold action from legislators to fund transit, middle-class New York families will have to spend $2,300 more per year to get around the city even as the quality of the service they’re paying for declines, according […]

Gov’s Proposed NYC Tax Hike: A Testament to Your Local Pols, New Yorkers

By Ben Fried | Feb 9, 2010 | 21 Comments

So it’s come to this. With transit revenues plummeting to the point where the MTA has to deal with a $400 million shortfall on top of an austerity plan that already calls for deep cuts in service, Governor Paterson yesterday proposed shifting the burden of the MTA payroll tax to fall heavily on New York […]

More Bad News for Transit Funding: Payroll Tax Comes Up Lame Again

By Noah Kazis | Feb 3, 2010 | 8 Comments

The MTA’s budget picture took another turn for the worse today. The payroll tax instituted as part of last year’s funding package continues to raise far less revenue than expected. Which means that even if the extensive service cuts on the table take effect, the MTA will still have to deal with a $400 million […]

Infrastructure Bigs: To Compete, NYC Needs Congestion Pricing, Tolls

By Noah Kazis | Feb 1, 2010 | 12 Comments

Tolls at the Holland Tunnel. Now the Port Authority is looking for the next financing model. Image: Library of Congress. At a panel put on by the New School last week, some of New York’s biggest players in transportation and planning came together to discuss the future of the city’s infrastructure. They all seemed to […]

Lawmakers Stricken With Collective Amnesia as Transit Cuts Loom

By Brad Aaron | Jan 13, 2010 | 2 Comments

When Albany slapped a Band-Aid over the MTA budget hole last spring, no one except the architects of the plan pretended that the transit system was actually on sound financial footing. As yet another day of reckoning approaches, lawmakers continue to go to bizarre extremes to avoid admitting that their slipshod funding package has failed. […]

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