Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Charles Komanoff

Highlights of the “Equal Tolls, Unequal Access” Discussion

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 7 Comments

April Greene reports on Monday’s congestion pricing panel discussion at the New School: "And now the last of the bald men will speak," said Jeffrey Risom, an urban designer at Gehl Architects of Denmark, as he took the podium at Monday night’s congestion pricing panel at the New School. Indeed, all four panelists did possess […]

Brian Ketcham Proposes a “Simpler, Cheaper Traffic Fix”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 14, 2007 | 41 Comments

Distribution of vehicles entering Manhattan CBD by direction and pricing status (Zupan & Perrotta, 2003). In an op/ed piece in Monday’s Daily News, Brooklyn-based transportation consultant Brian Ketcham proposed some changes to Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Ketcham, who has been pushing for some form of congestion pricing since his time working for the Lindsay […]

Bloomberg Declares Support for a National Carbon Tax

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 7 Comments

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will declare his support today for a national carbon tax, according to a report posted this morning on the New York Times City Room blog by metro reporter Sewell Chan: Mayor Bloomberg plans to announce today his support for a national carbon tax. In what his aides are calling […]

Memorials Held for Thomson and Miller

By Brad Aaron | Oct 4, 2007 | No Comments

From Time’s Up!: Cyclist and pedestrian advocates gathered [Tuesday] night at the corner of Houston Street and 6th Avenue where Hope Miller was killed by a drug-impaired driver on September 25th. An honorary plaque provided by Street Memorials and a memorial stencil, bearing Hope Miller’s name and date of death, were placed near the crash […]

Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congressional debate on climate change has revealed division among politicians on how to best regulate carbon emissions. From NPR’s Marketplace, we get a report on the sharp difference between leading Democrats in both houses, Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Rep. John Dingell (MI) Boxer is quoted as preferring cap and trade, which seems to be […]

The Introduction of a New Order of Things

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 5 Comments

In his essay, "Valuing the Commons," Charles Komanoff discusses congestion pricing and carbon taxes and the difficulty in convincing people to pay for their negative externalities. Komanoff wrote it back in June and it’s on Grist this week: What, then, is standing in the way of congestion fees and a national carbon tax? The power […]

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