Keep Hope Alive?
Over at the Daily Politics, Liz Benjamin reports that state leaders are negotiating behind closed doors and congestion pricing is still on the table. City Room is also reporting that Governor Paterson called an emergency meeting and the plan was still under discussion as of 5:45 pm.
April 7, 2008
With Congestion Pricing Dead, a $17 Billion Transit Deficit Looms
We're putting in some calls and getting some initial reactions to the State Assembly's failure to bring New York City's congestion pricing plan to a vote today.
April 7, 2008
If Congestion Pricing Fails, Rest Assured, There’s Always Plan B
Copenhagen-based Flickr photographer Zakkalicious tells us that this cartoon was originally published in the May 1933 issue of Toy World magazine and also appeared in David Herhily's 2004 book, "Bicycle."
April 4, 2008
Ad Nauseam: State Farm on the Humiliation of Biking to Work
Drop what you're doing, click the "play" button and enjoy 30 seconds of outstanding car culture courtesy of State Farm.
April 3, 2008
Brodsky Presents Dems With a Choice: God’s Love or Al D’Amato
Richard Brodsky is using this letter to rally opposition to congestion pricing.
April 2, 2008
We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany?
This morning's Crain's Insider names Streetsblog one of the winners of Monday's congestion pricing vote in City Council. While we're honored, no one around here is spiking the ball or dancing in the end zone until New York's famously dysfunctional state legislature is done doing whatever it is they're going to do to the plan. Richard Brodksy is, for now, a loser who "overplayed his hand."
April 2, 2008
NY1 Poll: How do You Want Your Legislator to Vote?
Beneath an ad banner hawking the BMW X5 sports ute ("with an optional third row seat!"), the NY1 web site is running a congestion pricing Snap Poll that asks, "How would like your state lawmakers to vote on congestion pricing?" Vote right here.
April 1, 2008
Robots Against Congestion Pricing
A Streetsblog reader on the Upper West Side of Manhattan tells us that he just received an anti-congestion pricing robo-call on his home phone. No word on whose voice was being used, who is funding it, or what districts are being called. This much we know:
March 27, 2008
Queens Pols Rally to Keep Using Gioia’s District as Their Doormat
Tony Avella, Leroy Comrie, Melinda Katz, David Weprin "and other possible members of the Queens Delegation" are holding an anti-congestion pricing rally tomorrow morning at 8:00 on the Queens side of the 59th Street Bridge, according to an e-mail from the Queens Civic Congress.
March 27, 2008