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We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany?
This morning's Crain's Insider names Streetsblog one of the winners of Monday's congestion pricing vote in City Council. While we're honored, no one around here is spiking the ball or dancing in the end zone until New York's famously dysfunctional state legislature is done doing whatever it is they're going to do to the plan. Richard Brodksy is, for now, a loser who "overplayed his hand."
April 2, 2008
NY1 Poll: How do You Want Your Legislator to Vote?
Beneath an ad banner hawking the BMW X5 sports ute ("with an optional third row seat!"), the NY1 web site is running a congestion pricing Snap Poll that asks, "How would like your state lawmakers to vote on congestion pricing?" Vote right here.
April 1, 2008
Pay Back: Richard Brodsky Proposes Road Pricing for Westchester
Please note: This was an April Fool's Day post...
April 1, 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
Silver Calls Hearing on Pricing and MTA Capital Plan
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will hold a hearing Thursday on how congestion pricing revenues would figure into the MTA's five-year capital plan. He will be joined by anti-pricing Assembly Members Richard Brodsky and Denny Farrell.
March 5, 2008
Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks.
Just two of the 17 members of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, Assemblymen Richard Brodsky and Herman "Denny" Farrell, voted against the revised congestion pricing plan that now awaits approval by the City Council and state legislators, all of which must happen by March 31 if the city is to receive $354 million in federal funds for upfront citywide transit improvements.
March 3, 2008
The Brodsky Alternative, Take Two: $6.50 to Enter a Cab
His license plate rationing scheme beloved by none, this afternoon Assemblyman Richard Brodsky offered his second congestion pricing alternative: raising the $2.50 taxi "drop charge" to $6.50, increasing fines for illegal parking and blocking the box, and further cutting the number of parking placards issued to government employees.
February 28, 2008
Brodsky Sows Doubt, Misinformation at Brooklyn Pricing Debate
Fred Siegel of the Progressive Policy Institute moderated Sunday's debate.
February 19, 2008
Queens Pricing Opponents Push a Fantasy Commuter Tax
Last week the Queens Civic Congress held an "MTA Capital Plan Forum," where members peddled their commuter tax revival plan to transit chief Elliot "Lee" Sander as an alternative to congestion pricing, which Sander says is vital to the future of his agency.
February 14, 2008