Pricing Bill Appears in Albany; Bloomberg and Paterson Meet
From The Daily Politics:
By
Brad Aaron
5:31 PM EDT on March 19, 2008
From The Daily Politics:
While members of the City Council haven’t seen it, a congestion pricing bill drafted by the Bloomberg administration has popped up in Albany over the last 24 hours, although it does not yet have a sponsor and hasn’t been introduced.
Here is a PDF of the 41-page bill (caution: it’s a large file). Liz Benjamin at TDP got a copy from Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, along with requisite commentary (he calls it “regressive” and “unfair”).
As of 2:30 this afternoon, Benjamin said, the City Council had not seen the bill.
Also, the mayor and the governor had a meeting this afternoon, reports the Politicker, where they were “presumably talking about things like congestion pricing and the state budget.”
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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