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OPINION: The Congestion Pricing Toll Really Should Be $80
The higher price will ensure maximum benefits for our entire society, including drivers.
January 27, 2022
Up Next for DOT: City Law Requires 500 New Loading Zones Every Year
The city Department of Transportation is now required by law to install at least 500 loading zones annually. How's that going?
January 14, 2022
KOMANOFF: Outer-Borough Gridlock Strengthens the Case for Congestion Pricing
It's another good chance to make the argument that should neutralize non-Manhattan whining. If only our elected officials would lead, not demagogue.
December 28, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines: Gridlock Alert Edition
It's the first Wednesday of December, which means we've entered "Gridlock Alert Month." Plus other news.
December 1, 2021
New ‘Induced Demand’ Calculator Shows Exactly How Much Driving Your City’s Highway Expansion Will Cause
A new calculator shows the real impacts of proposed highway expansions in their communities — and the experts behind the project hope that transportation agencies will someday be required to use it, too.
October 20, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: You Are the Traffic
Clearly, our cartoonist is sick of drivers complaining about bike lanes (that they mostly park in or drive over) as the source of all the congestion and aggressive driving around town.
October 20, 2021
In Their Own Words: New Yorkers Want Congestion Pricing … And Now
Some amazingly eloquent New Yorkers speaking out for relief from constant abuse by car drivers.
September 24, 2021
KOMANOFF: Latest Traffic Numbers Prove Need for Congestion Pricing, Once and For All
On the eve of today's opening of the congestion pricing public comment period, we asked Charles Komanoff to do what he does best: Crunch the numbers and show that our region desperately needs congestion pricing. Here you go.
September 23, 2021
Friday’s Headlines: For Whom the Central Business District Tolls
The MTA announced the dates for its congestion-pricing public meetings. Plus, other news on a torpid day.
August 27, 2021
How To Avoid the Other COVID Plague: Traffic
But there is a willingness for citizens to move to active methods of travel, such as cycling, rather than replacing public transport modes with cars.
August 23, 2021