Sentences with phrase «advocates of congestion pricing»
Three longtime advocates of congestion pricing — Sam Schwartz, Charles Komanoff, and Alex Matthiessen — have been widely credited with keeping the idea alive after the Bloomberg plan failed.
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Three longtime advocates of congestion pricing — Sam Schwartz, Charles Komanoff, and Alex Matthiessen — have been widely credited with keeping the idea alive after the Bloomberg plan failed.
But even advocates of congestion pricing are divided over how to transplant it to New York, which would be the first American city to have a pay - to - drive fee in its central business district.
Though some see this unforeseen development as an opportunity to move on much - needed reforms in Albany, it's not great news for advocates of congestion pricing.
While Governor Cuomo is an advocate of congestion pricing to raise funds to fix the subways, Mayor de Blasio has called the idea «inconceivable.»
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There was little about congestion pricing in the state budget despite months of lobbying by advocates, a six - figure media campaign, and rallies by transit riders.
The plan lacks any form of congestion pricing, a policy supported by a collection of transit and environmental advocates that the mayor feels is unfair to car - owning residents of the city.
It's been a decade since former Mayor Michael Bloomberg first proposed bringing congestion pricing to Manhattan, and in the years since, the plan — despite having the support of transit advocates and some New York City officials — has gone basically nowhere.
«For decades, advocates have been pushing our elected leaders to put forth a serious congestion pricing plan to tackle the region's twin challenges of traffic and transit underinvestment,» added Alex Matthiessen, the director of the Move NY Campaign.
«In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills talks to advocates Move NY Campaign Director Alex Mathiessen and Riders Alliance Executive Director John Raskin about the different types of congestion pricing proposals.
While some progress is being made on a progressive version of a carbon tax, congestion - pricing advocates were hell - bent on a flat fee.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat and the most visible champion of congestion pricing after reviving it last summer, and his aides, as well as lobbyists and advocates, focused their efforts on winning over the Assembly in hopes that they could present a united front and put pressure on the Senate, according to those familiar with their strategy.
«This is a smart, comprehensive plan to address the challenges in New York, while taking into account the interests and needs of all New Yorkers,» Sam Schwartz, CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering, a congestion pricing advocate and a former city traffic commissioner, said.
Schwartz has, in fact, garnered a good deal more support from the same outer borough leaders and driver advocates that either rejected former mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion pricing bid or stayed on the sidelines, including the New York State Motor Truck Association, the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, and Councilman Weprin.
The spreadsheet was born in 2007 when Ted Kheel, a labor lawyer and «fierce advocate of mass transit,» as Komanoff once wrote, hired him to answer one question: Could congestion pricing generate enough revenue to make mass transit free?
The increase in support may reflect the public outreach efforts of advocates and agency officials to list the specific transit improvements that would be funded by congestion pricing (in addition to Tri-State and RPA's borough and regional fact sheets, the Campaign for New York's Future now has fact sheets for individual City Council and State Legislative districts).
New York City is coming up on the four year anniversary of a moment that will live in infamy for transit riders and sustainable transportation advocates: the demise of congestion pricing, which was put down in the state Assembly without a vote on April 7, 2008.