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Thank Goodness for Dear, Glorious Leader Sheldon Silver

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

Almost exactly one year ago, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser wrote a great little essay for the New York Sun’s op/ed page that asked the question, Does New York Suffer From A Soviet Traffic System?: The Soviet approach to markets set prices at some controlled price, and then let shortages ensue. Under this system, millions wasted […]

112,000 Less Cars

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2007 | 33 Comments

Here are more points from Friday’s PlaNYC Hearing: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff estimated congestion pricing would remove 112,000 cars from city streets on a daily basis, with 94,000 would-be drivers switching to transit, in what he said would be "Probably the single greatest mode shift anywhere." DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller said that whatever edge […]

From a Sea of Green, Bloomberg Works a Tough Room

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2007 | 24 Comments

Flanked by dozens, if not hundreds, of citizen spectators in bright green "I Breathe and I Vote" t-shirts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city staffers this morning made the case for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program to a largely hostile cadre of state Assembly members. Seated alongside ten colleagues in the auditorium of the New […]

PlaNYC Testimony Live on NY1 Right Now

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 8, 2007 | 16 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg is presenting his plan for a greater greener New York at the first in a series of Assembly hearings today, where he is pitching his congestion pricing plan, among other aspects of his proposal for a sustainable city. DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller got a nice introduction at the start. Watch it live […]

Bloomberg Upbeat, Media Less So, Ahead of PlaNYC Hearings

By Brad Aaron | Jun 5, 2007 | 2 Comments

With a scant few weeks left in the session, the state Assembly has scheduled the first of six hearings on PlaNYC — including, of course, congestion pricing — for Friday at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, at 42 West 44th Street. The Daily […]

Who Wants to Drive Into a City That’s Under Water?

By Jason Varone | Apr 30, 2007 | No Comments

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the outstanding Field Notes From a Catastrophe, covers climate change for the New Yorker. In this week’s issue, she takes up congestion pricing and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2030 plan: The case against congestion pricing is often posed in egalitarian terms. "The middle class and the poor will not be able to […]