Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Sadik-Khan: We’re Putting the Square Back in Madison Square

By Ben Fried | Apr 18, 2008 | 15 Comments

DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan gave a brief, clear-eyed overview of the city’s post-pricing transportation agenda today at the Regional Plan Association’s 18th Annual Regional Assembly. Speaking at a panel discussion called "Making Cars Pay Their Way," she rattled off a list of projects in the works, including some public space improvements that are certain to […]

Residential Parking Plan Falls With Congestion Pricing

By Brad Aaron | Apr 18, 2008 | 17 Comments

We haven’t really talked about it on Streetsblog, but when state lawmakers killed congestion pricing, they also nixed the city’s proposed Residential Parking Permit program. The Brooklyn Paper reports that some still want RPPs, with or without pricing: To generate support for the now-dead $8 fee to drive into Manhattan, the city had offered to […]

Electeds Still Need to Hear From Pricing Supporters

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 18, 2008 | 8 Comments

After nearly a year of personally advocating for congestion pricing, I shared my fellow Streetsbloggers’ frustration as the current round ended not with a decisive vote, but with the clock running out on a federal funding deadline. As this great New York political battle fades into memory, I hope future historians will not remember this […]

Upstate Assembly Member Says City Delegation Killed Pricing

By Brad Aaron | Apr 17, 2008 | 8 Comments

What went on behind the closed doors of the Democratic conference the day congestion pricing died in the Assembly? According to a constituent letter from Binghamton rep Donna A. Lupardo, the "overwhelming majority" of New York City members were opposed to pricing, and upstate pols followed their lead. Thank you for your recent email concerning […]

What If Pricing Had a Better Name?

By Ben Fried | Apr 16, 2008 | 20 Comments

A commentator at the Wall Street Journal blog Buzzwatch posits that congestion pricing would have stood a better chance if it had a better name. After asking branding specialists for a more appealing moniker, here’s what rose to the top: StreetSmart – Burt Alper, Catchword Branding FreeFlow and ClearPass – George Frazier, Idiom Brand Identity […]

Jessica Lappin: Congestion Pricing Advocate

By Jason Varone | Apr 15, 2008 | 22 Comments

This recent constituent e-mail shows that Council Member Jessica Lappin’s lukewarm support for congestion pricing seems to have turned into full-fledged support now that the proposal has no chance of being implemented (taking a page out of Assemblywoman Joan Millman‘s book). In Lappin’s defense, she did vote for pricing when it came before the council. […]

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