Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Regional Plan Association

Opinion: Congestion Pricing Benefits Are Inarguable; Its Minor Problems are Easily Fixable

By Tom Wright | Sep 21, 2022 | No Comments

Congestion pricing will reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality. It will raise vital revenue for public transit. It will make the transportation system more equitable.

Rep. Ritchie Torres with Loving the Bronx Founder Nilka Martell at a press conference on congestion pricing and air quality in the Bronx. Photo: Dave Colon

Rep. Ritchie Torres: I’m Not One of Those Congestion Pricing Critics

By Dave Colon | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

He's got some minor issues with the tolling plan, but he still supports it — not like Malliotakis or Gottheimer!

The portal to the future Gateway tunnel being constructed at Hudson Yards in the west 30s in 2014. Photo: MTA/Patrick Cashin

Report: Cross-Hudson Transit Trips Will Hit New Highs No Matter What Awful Future Awaits

By Dave Colon | Jun 16, 2022 | No Comments

No matter what the variables between now and 2070, transit ridership in the cross-Hudson tunnels between New York and New Jersey will wind up outdoing the ridership figures from before the pandemic.

MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber before delivering bad news on congestion pricing. Photo: Dave Colon

MTA Boss: Feds’ Extensive Technical Questions Are Delaying Congestion Pricing

By Dave Colon | May 25, 2022 | No Comments

How many questions must the MTA face before they can put in a toll?

New Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner and Chief Climate Officer Rohit Aggarwala addresses the media at City Hall. Photo: Dave Colon

New City Hall Climate Teams Must Focus On Transportation Emissions Reductions, Advocates Say

By Dave Colon | Feb 2, 2022 | No Comments

What does Mayor Adams’s new climate office mean for the main challenges: reducing car ownership and overturning years of environmental racism?

A piece of the Bay Ridge Branch in Brooklyn, looking east. Photo: Dave Colon

ANALYSIS: Gov. Hochul’s ‘Bi-Boro’ Train Line: How Will it Work?

By Dave Colon | Jan 21, 2022 | No Comments

If you read no other story about the plan, this is the one.

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