Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Move NY

Public Support for NYC Toll Reform Highest in the Suburbs

By Stephen Miller | Dec 16, 2014 | 54 Comments

Since March, Move New York has made the case that its traffic reduction and transit funding plan can succeed in Albany. Proposing to raise car tolls in the transit-rich but congested Manhattan core while lowering them in more distant, car-dependent parts of town, Move NY seeks to avoid the political pitfalls that have sunk road […]

Cheaper Gas and Uber Have Manhattan Gridlock Poised to Get Worse

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 24, 2014 | 30 Comments

Traffic gridlock in Manhattan has been on the wane for some time. Newly released 2013 traffic counts from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council show 747,000 motor vehicles entering the Manhattan Central Business District on a typical weekday. While that still constitutes a crushing load, it’s 5,000 fewer cars each day than in 2012 and […]

Fair Tolls: Fixing NYC’s Gridlock and Transit Shortfall in One Fell Swoop

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 7, 2014 | 61 Comments

When Governor Nelson Rockefeller merged New York’s commuter rail lines, the NYC Transit Authority, and Robert Moses’s Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority to form the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968, he had several motives. The new agency consolidated political power, made more efficient use of regional infrastructure, and devoted surplus bridge and tunnel toll revenues […]

Unlike Toll Reform, a Sales Tax Really Is a Regressive Way to Fund Transit

By Stephen Miller | Jul 29, 2014 | 6 Comments

The MTA capital program is facing a $12 billion shortfall, according to Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, and unless that gap is closed, transit riders will end up paying even more to cover the agency’s ballooning debt load. There’s one clear way to address that problem while cleaning up the traffic mess that ensnares motorists, bus riders, […]

The Move NY Fair Tolling Plan Is Polling Better Than Congestion Pricing

By Brad Aaron | Jun 16, 2014 | 31 Comments

Toll reform is polling better in New York City than congestion pricing did, even when pollsters don’t mention that the Move NY plan would mean billions in transit revenue. Capital New York’s Dana Rubinstein reports: “Would you support or oppose a plan to charge tolls on the East River bridges, which go into Manhattan, and […]

Instead of Reforming NYC Tolls, Ruben Diaz, Jr. Proposes Soaking the Bronx

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2014 | 19 Comments

Like the Tea Party adherents who are always going to equate walkability and sustainable transportation with a global UN conspiracy, some New York City electeds are always going to call road pricing “regressive” no matter how much the evidence suggests otherwise. But Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. really ought to know better. Diaz has […]

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