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What Paterson’s Senate District Stands to Gain From Pricing
With conflicting reports on congestion pricing's status in Albany, and given his own ambiguous statements, it remains to be seen whether Governor David Paterson will get behind the plan -- though a look at census data published by the Tri State Transportation Campaign shows that most of those he once represented in the New York State Senate could only benefit.
March 21, 2008
Congestion Pricing Bill: Fun With Legalese
After months of following the step-by-step evolution of the congestion pricing proposal, there's a certain satisfaction in seeing familiar concepts codified in legislative language. To wit, we hope readers who've been tracking Streetsblog's coverage of this topic enjoy these excerpts from the bill. Parse away.
March 21, 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: Sticking Points, Horse Trading, Hearings
The congestion pricing deadline is little more than a week (or two) away, and news is coming fast and furious about the last wave of legislative wrangling. Two reports published in the last 16 hours give a sense of how compromises may be hashed out to gain passage for the measure.
March 21, 2008
Congestion Pricing Bill: First Impressions
Following word that a congestion pricing bill has surfaced in Albany, details are emerging about the actual legislation. Today's New York Times story on Governor Paterson's attitude toward pricing included specifics on how penalties would work and confirmed the existence of a "livable streets lock box" funded by parking fees:
March 20, 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
Two Ways to Tell the Story of Congestion Pricing
This Monday the Washington Post ran a long feature on page A1, "Letting the Market Drive Transportation," about the Bush administration's attempts to shift financing for roads from the gas tax to user fees, and starve transit in the process. The cast of characters includes a pair of conservative ideologues, Tyler Duvall and D.J. Gribbin, high up in U.S. DOT, as well as Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who earned the enmity of alternative transportation advocates last summer when she said bikes aren't transportation.
March 20, 2008
Bloomberg Says There’s No Reason Pricing Shouldn’t Pass
Mayor Bloomberg (far, far background) at the Battery Park City Ritz-Carlton this morning
March 19, 2008
Assembly Member Deborah Glick: Angry Fence-Sitter
New Jersey traffic headed toward Chelsea Tuesday evening
March 19, 2008