Charles Komanoff
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KOMANOFF: Congestion Pricing Will NOT Fill Upper Manhattan With Suburbanites Cruising for Parking
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Our expert fires up his transportation spreadsheet and finds that neighborhood fears about a carmaggedon at the edge of congestion pricing zone are unfounded.
Congestion Pricing IS New York’s Green New Deal
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Here's another reason for fence-sitters to jump into the congestion pricing fray as the deal is being made in Albany in the next week.
KOMANOFF: Investing Congestion Revenues in Better Train Signals Could Save New Yorkers Lots of Time
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Here's the best use of congestion pricing toll revenue: Making subway trains run faster.
KOMANOFF: How to Counter the Latest Congestion Pricing Objections
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Reasonable people raise objections to congestion pricing. But they can be easily addressed.
KOMANOFF: Want Fair Taxi Congestion Surcharges? Embed Them Within Congestion Tolling
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A nationally respected expert says a City Council taxi bill is a springboard for a better congestion-pricing plan.
KOMANOFF: Good Tidings for Congestion Pricing From Governor Cuomo
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The governor's congestion pricing plan is a win-win-win.
Op-Ed: Varick Street Crossing Guards Are Telling a Tale of Congestion Pricing
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The Times story on "adult crossing guards" reveals, though inadvertently, how our politicians have failed us.
Memo To Council Member Barry Grodenchik: Find a New Congestion Pricing Guru
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The Queens lawmaker foolishly said he agreed with former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky's flawed argument that fees on drivers are "elitist."
Op-Ed: Postpone the Taxi Congestion Surcharge
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A national expert says the added fee on cabbies is premature before full congestion pricing.
To Punish Saudi Regime for Killing Jamal Khashoggi, Institute a Carbon Tax in U.S.
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This is more than just payback for the regime that murdered Jamal Khashoggi. It's good public policy.
Leave It to Lyft? Trust Uber? (But Who’s Gonna Watch the FHV Surcharges?)
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Streetsblog's resident taxi maven highlights a huge flaw in the city and state's plan to charge surcharges on yellows, Ubers, black cars and green cars that enter Manhattan below 96th St.
No Uber-Lyft Cap Needed Because New York Can Price Its Way Out of Congestion and Despair
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Congestion pricing is a much better plan than capping Uber and Lyft, which provide a valuable service outside of Manhattan.