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Word on the Street: Pricing “Like Charging You to Breathe”

2:15 PM EST on January 31, 2008

WNYC had a short piece on the upcoming congestion panel vote this morning. It's a series of "word on the street" comments. Some of them are funny, others not so much. The gist is that a lot of people still don't know -- or don't believe -- that pricing revenues will be invested in transit.

This afternoon, the state’s Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commissionwill likely endorse some variation of [Bloomberg's congestion pricing] plan. Then, the City Counciltakes up the issue, followed by the state legislature, where oppositionis strong.

Over the past week, WNYC’s Matthew Schuerman has beentalking to New Yorkers in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. He found thatone of Bloomberg's main arguments isn't getting through.

Listen for the driver who doesn't like the smell of other people. 

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