Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Kheel Plan

Q & A With Charles Komanoff on Kheel Plan 2

By Ben Fried | Dec 10, 2008 | 7 Comments

Charles Komanoff in the booth at WNYC earlier this year. Photo: WNYC/Flickr Today Ted Kheel released a revised version of his plan to fund transit through a congestion pricing mechanism on motor vehicle traffic. Streetsblog spoke to one of Kheel’s lead analysts, Charles Komanoff, about the updated plan (see the major components here) and why […]

Kheel Plan 2 Seeks to Plug MTA Budget Gap

By Ben Fried | Dec 10, 2008 | 21 Comments

Ted Kheel and his band of transportation analysts are releasing an updated version of their low-cost transit proposal, which they are pitching as an alternative to the Ravitch Commission’s MTA rescue package. The revised Kheel Plan retains the original’s congestion zone cordon, charging vehicles to drive into Manhattan below 60th Street. The major twist is […]

Kheel Planners: MTA Austerity a Recipe for Gridlock Hell

By Ben Fried | Nov 21, 2008 | 7 Comments

New Yorkers can expect more misery on the streets as well as underground if the MTA has to follow through on the austerity measures it unveiled yesterday. The transportation analysts behind the Kheel Plan — the congestion pricing variant that balances higher driver fees with free transit — calculate that the likely combination of service […]

“Kheel Plan II” to Revive Free Transit Proposal for ’09 Races

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 2, 2008 | 26 Comments

“In for a penny, in for a pound” is how the Brits express what we Americans less elegantly call “the whole hog”: why do something halfway when you might as well go all the way? That’s the thinking behind Ted Kheel’s free-transit proposal. If an $8 congestion fee, as unsuccessfully proposed recently by Mayor […]

Kheel to Push Free Transit Pricing Plan in ’09 Mayoral Race

By Brad Aaron | Apr 21, 2008 | 12 Comments

As former deputy mayor and Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission Chair Marc Shaw predicts that congestion pricing may re-emerge soon in the form a proposal to toll 60th Street and the East River bridges, the Daily Politics reports that Ted Kheel is planning to put up $1 million to promote his free transit plan heading into […]

Bridge and Tunnel Traffic Drop Tied to Toll Increase

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 14, 2008 | 30 Comments

The Times reported Saturday that vehicle traffic on Port Authority bridges and tunnels declined by 2.9% in March, in the wake of toll increases that took effect on March 2. In typical bizarre fashion, the Times’ lede asks, “Who needs congestion pricing when plain old toll increases seem to do the job?” Why not this […]

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