Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Richard Brodsky

Highlights of Yesterday’s Traffic Commission Meeting

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 47 Comments

| View | Upload your own Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller’s team at the Department of Transportation has been taking ideas offered up by Traffic Mitigation Commission members and running them through NYMTC’s regional traffic model. Schaller’s job is to help the Commission determine how effective each of these ideas will be in cutting traffic and […]

NYC Car Commuters Are Wealthier and Cops All Drive to Work

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 56 Comments

I’m not sure that this particular set of facts matters one bit to Traffic Mitigation Commission member Richard Brodsky, who claims to represent the little guy in the congestion pricing debate, but New York City’s Independent Budget Office released a report today demolishing the argument that pricing is unfair to the poor and working class […]

NYC’s “Flawed” Traffic Plan Brought to You by… Toyota

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 29, 2007 | 11 Comments

Grim picture: A screenshot from the CBS Channel 2 web site. CBS’s Marcia Kramer adds some splatter paint to the Village Voice’s "grim picture of the state of civic engagement" on congestion pricing. On Tuesday, her Channel 2 special investigative feature let us know that one guy in London has foiled that city’s congestion pricing […]

Spitzer Basks in Fare Freeze Afterglow

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2007 | 16 Comments

Liz Benjamin at The Daily Politics has been posting to-the-minute developments surrounding this morning’s fare freeze announcement from Governor Spitzer. Assemblyman Richard Brodsky says the move was a good first step, but that he wants other fare increases — including tolls — delayed as well. “We welcome the governor’s intervention, but there’s been no change […]

NYC Voters Oppose Pricing Unless it Helps Prevent a Fare Hike

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 19, 2007 | 37 Comments

A new Quinnipiac Poll shows that New York City voters would support congestion pricing by a 53-41 margin if it "prevents a hike in mass transit fares." The new poll also shows that a majority of voters still oppose the idea of congestion pricing by a margin of 61 to 33. Support for Mayor Bloomberg’s […]

Fact Check: Congestion Pricing is Not a “Regressive Tax”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 14 Comments

One of the most oft-repeated slams against congestion pricing we heard at this week’s Congestion Mitigation Committee hearings is that congestion pricing would be a "regressive tax," an unfair burden to poorer New Yorkers. Is congestion pricing regressive? The data suggests otherwise. As the chart above shows, even in Brooklyn Council member Lew Fidler’s heavily […]

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