Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Joe Bruno

Weiner Imagines Paying for His Traffic Plan With a Gas Tax Raise

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2007 | 40 Comments

Though reporters weren’t invited, Streetsblog managed to get a stringer into this morning’s On-and-Off-the-Record transportation policy talk with Congressman Anthony Weiner at Commerce Bank in Midtown. During the hour-long Q&A hosted by Edward Isaac-Dovere of City Hall News, Weiner hit on familiar themes: Something needs to be done about traffic but the mayor’s plan […]

Bruno: “The people who travel around are taxed enough.”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Up to now, State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has been a supporter of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for a congestion pricing pilot project. There is no reason to believe that has changed. Yet, he strikes a slightly ominous note in today’s Daily News article on the proposed MTA fare hike. "The people who travel around […]

August 1: The Mayor Shall Submit the Traffic Mitigation Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 1, 2007 | No Comments

A couple of weeks ago Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Spitzer, Senate Leader Bruno and Assembly Speaker Silver agreed to a process that would lead to the formation of a 17-member commission that would evaluate and decide on New York City’s congestion pricing proposal. The deal laid out a very specific timeline by which the process would […]

Congestion Pricing: Here’s the Deal

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 19, 2007 | 51 Comments

Below is a summary of the congestion pricing deal struck this afternoon by Governor Spitzer, Mayor Bloomberg, Assembly Speaker Silver and Senate Leader Bruno. The 17 member congestion pricing commission is made up as follows: 3 appointees — Mayor 3 appointees — Governor 3 appointees — City Council 3 appointees — State Senate majority leader […]

It’s Alive. It’s Dead. It’s Three Men in a Room!

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 11, 2007 | 10 Comments

Erik Engquist at Crain’s says a potential deal is in the works that would nix Gov. Spitzer’s call for campaign finance reform and give Albany legislators a long-sought pay raise in return for congestion pricing approval. An Assembly Member that I spoke with this morning, however, says that congestion pricing is totally dead or, as […]

City Holds Its Breath for Silver

By Brad Aaron | Jun 12, 2007 | 9 Comments

At the end of last week it appeared Mayor Bloomberg was on the verge of pulling it off. Having scored a congestion pricing bill in the state Senate, coaxed a cautious endorsement from the governor, and all but securing a near half-billion dollar pledge from Washington, Bloomberg sailed into Friday’s state Assembly hearings on a […]