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TSTC.org Would Be More Thankful If…

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s new Mobilizing the Region blog is really starting to come alive. If you haven’t added it to your daily news feed yet, it’s probably time to do it. After giving thanks for the transportation policy advances of 2007 on Thursday, the TSTC staff, engorged with Tofurkey, went back to work on […]

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 […]

Weiner Imagines Paying for His Traffic Plan With a Gas Tax Raise

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2007 | 40 Comments

Though reporters weren’t invited, Streetsblog managed to get a stringer into this morning’s On-and-Off-the-Record transportation policy talk with Congressman Anthony Weiner at Commerce Bank in Midtown. During the hour-long Q&A hosted by Edward Isaac-Dovere of City Hall News, Weiner hit on familiar themes: Something needs to be done about traffic but the mayor’s plan […]

Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 18 Comments

Council member Lew Fidler delivers his Tax & Tunnel plan to the Commission. Spencer Wilking reports: The city’s traveling road show of community advocates, local politicians and concerned residents, otherwise known as New York City’s Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, stopped in Brooklyn Thursday night as part of its whirlwind seven county tour. At the hearing […]

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 […]

On Behalf of 5.2% of His Constituents, Dinowitz Opposes Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 6, 2007 | 54 Comments

The16% of Bronx residents who own cars tend to have significantly higher incomes than those who do not, according to data from the State Department of Motor Vehicles and the 2000 Census. In an editorial in this week’s Riverdale Press, Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz says that if the vote on Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing […]

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