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Businesses Thrive on Car-Free Streets, Yet Mayor Adams Ignores Call for Widespread Pedestrianization
Top city officials have long said they want to reduce cars to create business-friendly streets, but Gov. Hochul's decision to kill congestion pricing isn't helping.
July 29, 2024
Citywide Bus Speeds Crash-Land To Pre-Pandemic Lows
"If someone is traveling three miles on the bus, a bus that goes 7 miles per hour can get them to the destination 10 minutes faster than the bus going 5 miles per hour."
June 25, 2024
Federal Judge Sets Aside a Key Congestion Pricing Lawsuit
Gov. Hochul's rationale for killing congestion pricing took another blow on Thursday as a federal judge dismissed one of the major lawsuits against it.
June 21, 2024
MTA Halts Work On Second Avenue Subway After Hochul’s Congestion Pricing ‘Pause’
Gridlock Gov. Hochul has joined the history books as the next governor to stop work on the Second Avenue subway.
June 18, 2024
National Green Groups Condemn Hochul’s Congestion Pricing ‘Pause’
Had New York engaged congestion pricing, the state would have "played a nation-leading role." Alas.
June 18, 2024
‘Irresponsible, Destructive’: Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Flip Harms Working New Yorkers, Ritchie Torres Says
"The delay of congestion pricing is not only bad morals and bad economics, it's bad politics," Torres told Streetsblog.
June 15, 2024
Feds: Congestion Pricing Will Be Better Than We Even Thought … And the Pressure is Now on Hochul
The FHWA affirmed the tolls won't have an adverse impact on the environment — kicking it to Gov. Hochul to determine what happens next.
June 14, 2024
Manhattan’s Central Business District Unites To Condemn Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Surrender
They're in the zone and they're zoned in.
June 14, 2024
Wednesday’s Headlines: Now Come the Lawsuits Edition
Comptroller Brad Lander and a band of legal eagles will announce a lawsuit today to save congestion pricing. Plus other news (including Joey Chestnut!).
June 12, 2024
Komanoff: William (Vickrey), It Was Really Nothing
Former City Council Member Kathryn Freed once said "traffic is killing us in Lower Manhattan." Now, she sues to stop Nobel-Prize-winning economist William Vickrey's congestion pricing idea.
May 20, 2024
