Your Daily Congestion Pricing Update
Mar 24th, 2008 by Jervey
Image from Transportation Alternatives ad [pdf]
I swear, this reblog isn’t all CP all the time. It’s just a particularly live period for this vital bit of public health-mass transit-climate change-energy-local economy-livable streets legislation. Here’s what happening right now.
Streetsblog (of course) had blogger Ben Fried inside the City Council public hearings today.
At the hearings, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan explains what NYC loses without pricing.
Last Friday, new guv Paterson made many a headline as he came out strongly for CP. (Not that he was trying to divert attention from anything else. Nope. Definitely not.)
And today, Republican Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno backed the plan.
Harlem-based Environmental Justice org WE ACT, along with Columbia’s Earth Institute, released a study that found that the congestion pricing plan “would have no significant negative impact on Northern Manhattan if implemented.”
And a Quinnipiac poll finds that New Yorkers support CP 2-1 if the funds do go towards mass transit, but they also doubt that the funds actually would.
Finally, the Daily News has an op-ed arguing that the best reason for CP is our kids’ mental health.