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City Council Passes Congestion Pricing. Next Stop: Albany.
The City Council has voted 30-20 to approve the home rule message sending congestion pricing to the state legislature. Noah Budnick of Transportation Alternatives gave us the full roll call, after the jump.
March 31, 2008
Pricing Clears Committee, Moves to Full Council Tonight
The Committee on State and Federal Legislation has voted in favor of the congestion pricing home rule message. Tonight, the full City Council will decide whether the state legislature can vote on the real bill. Transportation Alternatives' Noah Budnick is on the scene and providing us with updates. The Daily Politics is getting the news out pretty quickly too. Here's the roll call:
March 31, 2008
T.A. Ad Drives It Home … to Westchester
Taking aim at the richest irony of the
faux-populist case against congestion pricing, Transportation Alternatives has released this ad [PDF], coming soon to a newspaper near you. The copy reads:
March 21, 2008
Pricing Round Up: Persuasive Arguments, Rigged Polls, New Buses
With a congestion pricing bill now on the table and the days to get it passed quickly winding down, here is a snapshot of where a handful of electeds, including heavy-hitters like David Paterson and Sheldon Silver, stand.
March 20, 2008
DOT Launches Bike Rack Design Competition
The days of the U- and wave-racks are numbered
March 14, 2008
Is the NYPD Reducing Traffic Violations? Hard to Say…
Continuing Streetsblog's breakdown of the Mayor’s Management Report [PDF], we turn our attention this week from DOT to the NYPD section (page 119).
March 4, 2008
Sander Makes the Case for MTA Capital Plan and Pricing
A map presented by Lee Sander shows routes of short-term transit improvements (slide available in this PDF).
March 3, 2008
Ads Pitch Pricing Benefits to Transit-Taking Majority
With the March 31 deadline to qualify for $354M in federal transit funds approaching, the Campaign for New York's Future and the Empire State Transportation Alliance have rolled out an ad campaign to get the public behind congestion pricing.
February 25, 2008