Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ted Kheel

“Kheel Plan II” to Revive Free Transit Proposal for ’09 Races

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 2, 2008 | 26 Comments

“In for a penny, in for a pound” is how the Brits express what we Americans less elegantly call “the whole hog”: why do something halfway when you might as well go all the way? That’s the thinking behind Ted Kheel’s free-transit proposal. If an $8 congestion fee, as unsuccessfully proposed recently by Mayor […]

Kheel to Push Free Transit Pricing Plan in ’09 Mayoral Race

By Brad Aaron | Apr 21, 2008 | 12 Comments

As former deputy mayor and Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission Chair Marc Shaw predicts that congestion pricing may re-emerge soon in the form a proposal to toll 60th Street and the East River bridges, the Daily Politics reports that Ted Kheel is planning to put up $1 million to promote his free transit plan heading into […]

Kheel Plan Getting Lots of Play, Except Where It Counts

By Brad Aaron | Jan 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

With Michael Bloomberg expressing doubts about an apparently favored proposal to move the congestion pricing boundary south to 60th Street, Newsday columnist Ellis Henican challenged the mayor yesterday to get behind the Kheel free transit plan. [T]his is the giant carrot to accompany Bloomberg’s congestion-pricing stick. Charge $16 instead of $8, the authors suggest – […]

Kheel Planners Detail Free Transit Proposal

By Brad Aaron | Jan 25, 2008 | 30 Comments

Yesterday, Theodore "Ted" Kheel’s traffic plan was officially unveiled with a 52-page report (pdf) outlining his proposal to make transit free via a round-the-clock $16 congestion charge for cars ($32 for trucks) entering Manhattan below 60th Street. The report says Kheel’s "Bolder Plan" would cut CBD traffic by 25 percent, and traffic citywide by nearly […]

Bridge Toll Plan Headlines Congestion Commission Report

By Brad Aaron | Jan 10, 2008 | 40 Comments

One of four options presented in the Traffic Mitigation Commission’s Interim Report. Download the report. When the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission meets today, it is expected to deliberate four proposed alternatives to Mayor Bloomberg’s original congestion pricing plan. While Chairman Marc Shaw writes that that the commission "may choose to modify," "combine elements" or "put […]

A Q&A With Ted Kheel, Free Transit Advocate

By Jason Varone | Jan 9, 2008 | 42 Comments

Gothamist caught up with Ted Kheel, the 93 year old head of the Nurture New York’s Nature Foundation, which addresses the "fundamental conflict between development and the environment." Kheel will release the findings of his study "The Kheel Plan for Balancing Free Transit and Congestion Pricing in New York City" later this month: Many New […]

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