Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Move NY

City Council’s Progressive Caucus Endorses Move NY Toll Reform

By Ben Fried | Oct 29, 2015 | 17 Comments

The City Council has become the strongest source of political momentum for the Move New York toll reform plan. Today the council’s Progressive Caucus announced its support for Move NY, with 14 of the bloc’s 19 members voting to endorse, according to the Daily News. The key to enacting toll reform is Governor Cuomo, who has […]

Rodriguez Champions Toll Reform in Broad Vision for NYC Transportation

By Stephen Miller | Oct 5, 2015 | 23 Comments

Reforming New York’s broken road pricing and parking policies top an extensive list of transportation priorities from City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez, which he unveiled this morning in a speech at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation. The most pressing item on Rodriguez’s agenda is the Move New York toll reform proposal, which would […]

Why Is There So Much Traffic in NYC? It’s the Free Roads, Stupid

By Stephen Miller | Sep 17, 2015 | 63 Comments

Since the de Blasio administration attempted to cap for-hire cars this summer, the debate over Manhattan traffic has gotten louder, but not more productive. Uber claimed it definitely wasn’t the problem. Some council members wondered if bike lanes were slowing down cars. Amid all the noise, something important got lost. At a hearing about Manhattan traffic this morning convened by Borough President Gale Brewer, a simple […]

The Link Between Bridge Toll Dysfunction and Unsafe Streets

By Charles Komanoff | Aug 12, 2015 | 3 Comments

Did “toll shopping” figure in the death last week of cyclist Kevin Lopez in Long Island City? We don’t know for sure. But there’s a good chance it did, judging from a remark made by a passenger in the Mercedes that struck Lopez’s bicycle on Queens Plaza North near 29th Street around 2:15 p.m. on […]

The Politics of Road Pricing: Andrew Cuomo vs. Actual Polls

By Ben Fried | Aug 10, 2015 | 36 Comments

Andrew Cuomo styles himself as a guy who gets stuff done. That’s what muscling through the Tappan Zee Bridge double-span boondoggle and the multi-billion dollar LaGuardia renovation is all about. But when reporters ask Cuomo about funding transit by putting a price on NYC’s free bridges, he likes to portray himself as a helpless bystander, stymied by politics. […]

Prendergast’s Objections to Toll Reform Don’t Make Any Sense

By Stephen Miller | Jul 30, 2015 | 30 Comments

On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show this morning, MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast joined his boss Andrew Cuomo in dumping cold water on the Move NY toll reform plan as a way to fund the transit authority’s capital program. Trouble is, his critiques don’t make much sense. Lehrer played a clip of Cuomo arguing against toll reform on […]

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