Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Richard Brodsky

NY1 Poll: How do You Want Your Legislator to Vote?

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 1, 2008 | 4 Comments

Beneath an ad banner hawking the BMW X5 sports ute ("with an optional third row seat!"), the NY1 web site is running a congestion pricing Snap Poll that asks, "How would like your state lawmakers to vote on congestion pricing?" Vote right here. Also Partnership for New York president Kathy Wylde is on NY1 tonight […]

Pay Back: Richard Brodsky Proposes Road Pricing for Westchester

By Streetsblog | Apr 1, 2008 | 24 Comments

Please note: This was an April Fool’s Day post… State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a prominent opponent of congestion pricing, introduced his own plan for road pricing and smart growth zoning regulations in Westchester following New York City Council’s 30 to 20 vote in favor of Mayor Bloomberg’s traffic mitigation initiative. "New York City? Who needs […]

T.A. Ad Drives It Home … to Westchester

By Brad Aaron | Mar 21, 2008 | 7 Comments

Taking aim at the richest irony of the faux-populist case against congestion pricing, Transportation Alternatives has released this ad [PDF], coming soon to a newspaper near you. The copy reads: Drivers from Westchester earn an average income of $176,231. Only 4% of New York City commuters would pay the congestion fee. 100% of the […]

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 […]

Silver Calls Hearing on Pricing and MTA Capital Plan

By Brad Aaron | Mar 5, 2008 | 8 Comments

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will hold a hearing Thursday on how congestion pricing revenues would figure into the MTA’s five-year capital plan. He will be joined by anti-pricing Assembly Members Richard Brodsky and Denny Farrell. The Sun reports: The MTA’s executive director, Elliot Sander, who will testify at the hearing, has said Mr. Bloomberg’s plan […]

Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks.

By Brad Aaron | Mar 3, 2008 | 17 Comments

Just two of the 17 members of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, Assemblymen Richard Brodsky and Herman “Denny” Farrell, voted against the revised congestion pricing plan that now awaits approval by the City Council and state legislators, all of which must happen by March 31 if the city is to receive $354 million in federal […]

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