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From a Sea of Green, Bloomberg Works a Tough Room
Flanked by dozens, if not hundreds, of citizen spectators in bright green "I Breathe and I Vote" t-shirts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city staffers this morning made the case for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program to a largely hostile cadre of state Assembly members.
June 8, 2007
First Impressions of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC Testimony…
Did you watch Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing testimony before the New York State legislature? If so, what did you think? Here is the initial impression of John Kaehny, former executive director of Transportation Alternatives:
June 8, 2007
Submit a Congestion Pricing Question to Dr. Horodniceanu
The New York Times Empire Zone is hosting an interactive Q&A this afternoon with Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, a name that Streetsblog readers will recognize from our post-Iris Weinshall DOT commissioner search process rumor-mongering.
June 8, 2007
PlaNYC Testimony Live on NY1 Right Now
Mayor Bloomberg is presenting his plan for a greater greener New York at the first in a series of Assembly hearings today, where he is pitching his congestion pricing plan, among other aspects of his proposal for a sustainable city. DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller got a nice introduction at the start. Watch it live online.
June 8, 2007
I Love This Town But…
Has anyone spotted the new Environmental Defense billboards that are supposedly hanging over the Holland Tunnel and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway? If so, send us a photo -- bonus points for including lots of traffic in the shot. ED has a new web site, AllChokedUp.org. Here is one of the ads they are running:
June 7, 2007
PlaNYC and Pricing Legislation Introduced. Download it Here.
Exclusive to Streetsblog, at least for the next few minutes, here is S. 6068, the New York State Senate's congestion pricing legislation, or, as it is also known:
June 7, 2007
Congestion Pricing Plan Advancing Rapidly
Sewell Chan at the New York Times' Empire Zone has more on this morning's meeting between Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Spitzer and US Dept. of Transportation secretary Mary Peters:
June 7, 2007
Spitzer Backs Congestion Pricing
Is Mayor Bloomberg actually going to pull this off? Governor Eliot Spitzer came out in favor of congestion pricing this morning. Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News reports:
June 7, 2007
Bloomberg Upbeat, Media Less So, Ahead of PlaNYC Hearings
With a scant few weeks left in the session, the state Assembly has scheduled the first of six hearings on PlaNYC -- including, of course, congestion pricing -- for Friday at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, at 42 West 44th Street.
June 5, 2007