Environmental Review

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.

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.

New York should pull the plug on this $2-billion boondoggle. But the governor wants it, so it is hurtling ahead.

Earlier this week Streetsblog sat down with General Contractors Association Managing Director Denise Richardson for a wide-ranging discussion on the financial state of New York's transportation systems. In the first installment of the interview, we discussed the MTA's capital program, which is moving forward with important repair work but saddling transit riders with huge amounts of debt, and the inability of the federal government to pass a new transportation bill.

The Municipal Art Society came out with a report yesterday urging New York State to start analyzing greenhouse gas emissions in its environmental review process (SEQRA). MAS argues that the policy could be adopted without changing existing laws, which raises an interesting question to ponder on this Earth Day afternoon: Would the State Senate's latest MTA funding plan pass muster if it were subject to an EIS that factors in climate change?