Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michael Bloomberg

Pricing Round Up: Sticking Points, Horse Trading, Hearings

By Ben Fried | Mar 21, 2008 | 3 Comments

The congestion pricing deadline is little more than a week (or two) away, and news is coming fast and furious about the last wave of legislative wrangling. Two reports published in the last 16 hours give a sense of how compromises may be hashed out to gain passage for the measure. First, the Daily Politics […]

Pricing Round Up: Persuasive Arguments, Rigged Polls, New Buses

By Brad Aaron | Mar 20, 2008 | 19 Comments

With a congestion pricing bill now on the table and the days to get it passed quickly winding down, here is a snapshot of where a handful of electeds, including heavy-hitters like David Paterson and Sheldon Silver, stand. First, the Times quotes Governor Paterson, following his sit-down with Mayor Bloomberg yesterday afternoon: "The mayor, I […]

Two Ways to Tell the Story of Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Mar 20, 2008 | 9 Comments

This Monday the Washington Post ran a long feature on page A1, "Letting the Market Drive Transportation," about the Bush administration’s attempts to shift financing for roads from the gas tax to user fees, and starve transit in the process. The cast of characters includes a pair of conservative ideologues, Tyler Duvall and D.J. Gribbin, […]

Pricing Bill Appears in Albany; Bloomberg and Paterson Meet

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2008 | 3 Comments

From The Daily Politics: While members of the City Council haven’t seen it, a congestion pricing bill drafted by the Bloomberg administration has popped up in Albany over the last 24 hours, although it does not yet have a sponsor and hasn’t been introduced. Here is a PDF of the 41-page bill (caution: it’s a […]

Bloomberg Says There’s No Reason Pricing Shouldn’t Pass

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2008 | 40 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg (far, far background) at the Battery Park City Ritz-Carlton this morning It’s now or never for congestion pricing, the MTA, and maybe even the city itself, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning. Speaking before a sold-out crowd at the Battery Park City Ritz-Carlton, Bloomberg and U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters were the guests […]

Assembly Member Deborah Glick: Angry Fence-Sitter

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2008 | 29 Comments

New Jersey traffic headed toward Chelsea Tuesday evening Constituents of Lower Manhattan Assembly Member Deborah Glick have a lot to gain from congestion pricing, but they should not assume their representative will vote for the plan once (or if) it reaches Albany. Meeting with a group of advocates who traveled from the city yesterday, Glick […]

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