High gas prices are pushing more commuters onto mass transit options. (Gas $4.37 by flickr user 54east)
As Americans prepare to hit the road later today for their Fourth of July weekend travels, gas prices are at an all-time high. The national average cost for unleaded regular gas checks in at $4.092 per gallon while New […]
As Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan rose and fell in inglorious fashion, another congestion pricing plan has lingered on the horizon, not quite dying but not quite getting the attention it deserves.
That plan is, of course, Ted Kheel’s plan to make the subways free while implementing a high congestion fee and delivering all the […]
The MTA is going your way at a record pace this year. (Graphic courtesy of The Daily News).
Just last week, I wondered how the fare hike would impact MTA ridership figures. Through February of this year, ridership was on pace to set a modern-day record, but the fare hike loomed.
Well, the numbers are out, and […]
One of the staunch opponents of congestion pricing — Brooklyn Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries — would like to see the MTA increase service along the G train, and Streetsblog takes him to task for his hypocrisy. G train service upgrades, you see, were part of the planned service increases the MTA was going to institute this […]
Lucky Chicago. They aren’t afraid of change and progress, and now the Windy City is getting what should be ours if it hadn’t been for Sheldon Silver and his crony of cowardly representatives.
When New York decided not to adopt congestion pricing, the City forfeited around $354 million that would have gone toward anti-congestion […]
These bridges won’t be free for much longer if DOT has its way. (Photo by flickr user SheepGuardingLama)
While those of us in the pro-congestion pricing camp were busy slamming Sheldon Silver and mourning the death of Mayor Bloomberg’s radical and potentially revolutionary congestion pricing plan, the New York City Department of Transportation had other plans. […]
Chris over at East Village Idiot sums it up best with this Sheldon Silver graphic.
Two hours after the congestion pricing bill seemingly died in conference today without an Assembly floor vote, Assemblywoman Joan Millman from Brooklyn’s 52nd District announced her support of the Mayor’s controversial plan.
“Mr. Speaker, on the bill, I will vote yes on […]
Nearly one year to the day after its unveiling, Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan has died. The plan, which would have brought traffic relief and cleaner air to the city as well as more money for public transit, died when upstate politicians opted against bringing Bloomberg’s groundbreaking and controversial plan to an Assembly […]
In a story bound to pick up speed over the weekend, the tireless Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News’ The Daily Politics blog reports that MTA board members are threatening more fare hikes if congestion pricing isn’t approved. That leaves with one question: Is the MTA board engaging in some political chicanery or are […]
Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign is something of a subway guru. He is a tireless advocate for riders’ rights and for all things public transit in New York City. When he talks, rail watchers listen.
Yesterday, Russianoff talked and in a big way. In a piece in The Post, not normally a big congestion […]
