Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congestion Pricing

Are Bikes the Secret to Danish Bliss?

By Ben Fried | Jan 18, 2008 | 5 Comments

Seeking an answer to the question "Why are Danes happier than everyone else?," ABC News speculates that trust and bicycles make all the difference: In Denmark, you can see trust in action all around you. Vegetable stands run on the honor system, mothers leave babies unattended in strollers outside cafés, and most bicycles are left […]

Bloomberg Touches on Safe Streets, Pricing in State of the City

By Ben Fried | Jan 18, 2008 | 5 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg delivered his seventh State of the City Address yesterday morning at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The speech had several nuggets of news and info related to livable streets issues. Touting the good news from 2007, the Mayor noted that New York City’s streets are getting safer: In 2007, we made the safest big […]

Road Pricing and Public Transit: The “Virtuous Cycle”

By Ben Fried | Jan 17, 2008 | 19 Comments

Pricing could un-block the box for buses, and then some. In an op-ed published yesterday in Metro, MTA chief Lee Sander emphasized the connection between congestion pricing and improved subway and bus service, which polls continue to suggest is the key to securing public support. Sander’s piece joins reports that officials are working on plans […]

As Anti-Pricing Arguments Fall Away, It’s Just Parking & Politics

By Brad Aaron | Jan 17, 2008 | 6 Comments

Over the weekend, City Council Member David Weprin and "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free" spokesman Walter McCaffrey got a lot of press by casting doubt on whether congestion pricing revenues would, as promised, be invested in transit. It looks like a plan was already in the works to allay that fear. The Daily News reports: […]

Brodsky Taxes Milk! Toll Plazas Will be Named After Marc Shaw!

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 11, 2008 | 23 Comments

With its report released the day before, there wasn’t a lot of news to be found at yesterday’s meeting of the Congestion Mitigation Commission. There was, however, some good political theater and, with the deadline to produce a recommendation approaching, influential commissioners began staking out their positions. The day’s agenda was to discuss the four […]

Let’s Hear About Mayor Bloomberg’s Transit Improvement Plan

By John Kaehny | Jan 11, 2008 | 5 Comments

Kevin Sheekey: Bring this man home to talk about the transit improvements congestion pricing will fund. Sixty Percent of New Yorkers support Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to impose a congestion pricing fee on traffic entering Manhattan’s Central Business District and spending the resulting money on transit improvements. According to the pollsters at Quinnipiac, that support hasn’t […]

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