I Love This Town But…
Has anyone spotted the new Environmental Defense billboards that are supposedly hanging over the Holland Tunnel and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway? If so, send us a photo -- bonus points for including lots of traffic in the shot. ED has a new web site, AllChokedUp.org. Here is one of the ads they are running:
June 7, 2007
PlaNYC and Pricing Legislation Introduced. Download it Here.
Exclusive to Streetsblog, at least for the next few minutes, here is S. 6068, the New York State Senate's congestion pricing legislation, or, as it is also known:
June 7, 2007
Congestion Pricing Plan Advancing Rapidly
Sewell Chan at the New York Times' Empire Zone has more on this morning's meeting between Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Spitzer and US Dept. of Transportation secretary Mary Peters:
June 7, 2007
Spitzer Backs Congestion Pricing
Is Mayor Bloomberg actually going to pull this off? Governor Eliot Spitzer came out in favor of congestion pricing this morning. Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News reports:
June 7, 2007
London Finds “No Adverse Impact” Outside Charging Zone
With many New York City elected officials expressing concern that Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing study will create numerous problems in the neighborhoods just outside the charging zone, now is a good time to take a look at the extensive "Boundary Impacts Study" undertaken by Transport for London in its Fourth Annual Monitoring Report
June 4, 2007
Joe Lentol is Worried About Congestion Pricing Park-and-Riders
Local elected officials appear to be moving from a "tax on the middle class" critique of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal to a "park-and-ride" argument. Check out these two letters from senior Brooklyn Assembly member Joseph Lentol to constituents. In the first letter, written May 15, Lentol says that he is giving congestion pricing "his full review and consideration." He expresses no specific opinion or concerns about the plan:
June 4, 2007
Hit by a Car? Nothing Can be Done Unless You’re Hurt.
A letter in the Daily News this week reminds us of the need for better enforcement as well as the open source hit-and-run investigation conducted by Streetsblog readers last November:
June 1, 2007
Transport for London: You’re Better Off by Bike
A Thermoplastic bike stencil is the star of this short public service advertisement produced for London city government's transportation agency.
May 31, 2007
Deborah Glick: Devil’s in the Details of Congestion Pricing
Below is a letter from Lower Manhattan State Assembly Member Deborah Glick responding to a constituent who urged her to support Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan. If you have written a letter to one of your local elected officials and received a response, send it in.
May 31, 2007
DOT Hires Bruce Schaller to Run a New Planning Office
This is the first of a number of exciting and heretofore unimaginable hiring announcements likely to be coming out of New York City's Department of Transportation in the next few weeks:
May 29, 2007