Congestion Pricing
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Everyone’s Suddenly Open To Some Congestion Pricing Exemptions
According to the recently-released environmental assessment, the more wholesale exemptions or upstream toll credits that are doled out to certain classes of drivers, the more everyone else will shell out. But "no exemption" hardliners are hard to find right now.
August 26, 2022
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA: Gov. Hochul Suddenly Raises Questions about Congestion Pricing at Debate
Here we groan again.
June 8, 2022
Gov. Hochul’s Executive Budget Takes Aim at Bus Lane Blockers, Toll Cheats
No free rides for drivers in the bus lane or the license plate defacers on the highways.
January 20, 2022
De Blasio to MTA: 16-Month Congestion Pricing Environmental Review Is ‘Ridiculous’
The mayor is the latest to accuse the governor and his transit henchmen of slow-walking the not-controversial-at-all-unless-you-love-cars plan. (Look at the face he made!)
August 17, 2021
KOMANOFF: With Cuomo Sidelined, the MTA Must Get Congestion Pricing Done
Leaving NYC’s congestion-pricing program to wander and die in Albany's dysfunction over Gov. Cuomo is not acceptable.
August 4, 2021
KOMANOFF: Mayors Have a Congestion Pricing Ace Card — Here’s How to Play It
Gov. Cuomo is clearly stalling congestion pricing, according to Charles Komanoff, one of the few true experts on the central business district tolling plan. Here's how it can be saved.
July 14, 2021
The MTA’s Lack of Urgency on Congestion Pricing is Very Unnerving: Advocates
It's clear! Gov. Cuomo is in no rush to implement congestion pricing.
June 24, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Get Out of Joe’s Way, Governor, Mayor and Senator!
He has the rope! And the man is drowning in quicksand! So why are the governor, the mayor and the senator not telling him?!
February 3, 2021
OPINION: Time to Staff Up ‘Traffic Mobility Review Board’
While Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo dither on congestion pricing, they could at least appoint members to the review board that was created under the same state law that created congestion pricing.
November 13, 2020
Opinion: After Revel’s Retreat, Whither the Motorcycle in NYC?
The experience of the e-scooter service showed the need for better safety education. But, with proper rules and encouragement, motorcycles could enhance mobility while reducing cars.
July 30, 2020
