Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Pricing Recs to Include Residential Parking Permits

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
The Congestion Mitigation Commission will vote on a plan today at 3 p.m. A source who has seen the final draft of the Commission’s report tells me that it includes the following recommendations: Congestion pricing revenue goes directly to the MTA. A residential parking permit program with revenues going towards funding streetscape improvements and bike […]

Congestion Panel to Recommend Abbreviated Pricing Plan

By Brad Aaron | | 20 Comments
Today’s the day. The Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission is expected to sign off on a condensed version of the Bloomberg administration’s original pricing proposal today, one with a northern boundary of 60th Street (rather than 86th) and no charges for trips that begin within Manhattan’s Central Business District. Higher parking rates and a taxi surcharge […]

Lew Fidler’s 9 CARAT STONE Plan Lives!

By Brad Aaron | | 34 Comments
  Move over, Ted Kheel. On the eve of the Congestion Mitigation Commission deadline to sign off on some form of congestion pricing, Lew Fidler tells the Observer he will introduce his own 9 CARAT STONE plan to his colleagues on the City Council tomorrow. The Fidler Tax’n’Tunnel proposal, for those who’ve somehow forgotten, would […]

Kheel Plan Getting Lots of Play, Except Where It Counts

By Brad Aaron | | 5 Comments
With Michael Bloomberg expressing doubts about an apparently favored proposal to move the congestion pricing boundary south to 60th Street, Newsday columnist Ellis Henican challenged the mayor yesterday to get behind the Kheel free transit plan. [T]his is the giant carrot to accompany Bloomberg’s congestion-pricing stick. Charge $16 instead of $8, the authors suggest – […]
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