Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Senate Dems Denounce Bridge Tolls as Doomsday Draws Closer

By Brad Aaron | Feb 26, 2009 | 19 Comments

Take it to the bank: 67 percent of households in Ruben Diaz, Sr.’s Bronx district are car-free. While the looming MTA doomsday scenario is desperate enough that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has put forward a proposal to charge drivers roughly the same as transit riders to cross East and Harlem River bridges, Democrats over in […]

Jeffrey Dinowitz, Then and Now

By Brad Aaron | Feb 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz on congestion pricing, February 2008: Who could support a plan that creates a regressive tax on middle-class and working people from the Bronx and the outer boroughs? Jeffrey Dinowitz on the possibility of eliminating the Bx34, February 2009: "The fact that they would come up with such a boneheaded idea with […]

Congestion Pricing Foe Bill de Blasio (Grand)Standing Up for Straphangers

By Brad Aaron | Jan 28, 2009 | No Comments

Tonight, the MTA will host a public hearing in Brooklyn, where the agency will undoubtedly hear from scores of residents terrified by the prospect of elimination or reduction of service on several of the borough’s bus and subway lines. The self-appointed leader of the charge will be candidate for public advocate and current City Council […]

Stringer, Squadron, and Silver Call for Safer Chinatown Streets

By Ben Fried | Jan 23, 2009 | 25 Comments

Will Silver follow through in Albany to make streets safer for his Chinatown constituents? In response to the crash that killed two young children on a Chinatown sidewalk yesterday, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and State Senator Daniel Squadron have released a nine-point plan to improve safety on the neighborhood’s streets. From Stringer’s press release: […]

IBM Pitches Congestion Pricing to Middle America

By Brad Aaron | Jan 13, 2009 | 8 Comments

This IBM ad, now airing during NFL playoff games, is definitely aimed at the motoring set. More remarkable than its windshield perspective, though, is that it’s being used to introduce the concept of congestion pricing to sports-obsessed Americans, and it doesn’t get more mainstream than that. Instead of encouraging people to get out of their […]

New Low-Cost Transit Plan From Team Kheel-Komanoff

By Ben Fried | Jan 9, 2009 | No Comments

Ted Kheel and Charles Komanoff are out with an updated version of their plan to fund low-cost transit with congestion fees on cars and trucks. Coming hot on the heels of Kheel Plan II, the latest iteration — called Kheel-Komanoff — lowers the cordon tolls in a bid for political support but does not close […]

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