Sentences with phrase «while congestion pricing»

Schwartz said the millionaires tax does not have a connection to transit or congestion issues and that while congestion pricing «stands a very good chance» in the 2019 legislative session.

While congestion pricing faces daunting political obstacles, there are a host of complex technical issues that pose just as much of a challenge.

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While HQ2 could produce negative effects, including increased traffic congestion and housing prices, on the chosen city, dozens of cities have clamored for Amazon's attention.

De Blasio has backed a tax hike on the rich that would provide long - term needs for the subway, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo has revived a congestion pricing plan for Manhattan.

Uber and taxi customers would have to shell out all the fees under the state Assembly's proposed congestion - pricing plan, while private vehicles and commercial trucks would not be charged to drive into Manhattan.

While state leaders continue negotiating budget details ahead of their deadline this Sunday, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate most known for her role as Miranda Hobbes in «Sex and the City» said congestion pricing shouldn't be limited to new fees on companies like Uber and Lyft, as some in Albany have proposed.

A Quinnipiac University Poll published Thursday found that state voters were still not sold on congestion pricing — 49 percent polled opposed the idea, while 43 percent support it.

The debate over creating new dedicated revenue for the MTA has revived discussions of congestion pricing, which would add tolls to city roads and possibly the East River bridges in order to both manage traffic while also raising money for transit.

While de Blasio has said he'd be open to reviewing any plan from the panel, he has maintained in recent weeks that congestion pricing is a «regressive tax» that unfairly burdens lower - income, outer - borough car owners.

While New York State's Republican - led Senate did not include any congestion pricing in their budget resolution, the Assembly did include a watered - down version of Fix NYC's plan in theirs.

Cuomo had long been expected to release details about his vision for congestion pricing in New York City during his State of the State address as a project that would fund the MTA while also reducing traffic.

While Governor Cuomo is an advocate of congestion pricing to raise funds to fix the subways, Mayor de Blasio has called the idea «inconceivable.»

While no specifics have emerged, the two prominent attempts in the past decade to institute congestion pricing in New York City both included tolling the East River's four well - traveled bridges: the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and Ed Koch Queensboro.

While there's no telling if congestion pricing would actually pass this time around — or indeed, if Cuomo will actually bring it to the table in January — the city's current transit crisis may be enough, as Stephen Miller wrote in that same City & State piece, to «force Cuomo's hand» on the matter.

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Cuomo has described the new surcharges as a victory — the first step toward congestion pricing that would fund the MTA while simultaneously reducing traffic.

But while new battles may be ahead on issues such as congestion pricing, Cuomo said, «I'm very pleased with the work that's going on by the state and the city.»

«I'm a Queens boy,» he said, while discussing the proposals for congestion pricing that could result in tolls charged for driving into Manhattan below 60th Street during peak times.

While Cuomo has called for a congestion pricing plan that would create a system of tolls during peak hours, de Blasio has preferred a catch - all tax increase on the rich to pay for it.

Forty - nine percent of voters in New York disapproved of how Gov. Andrew Cuomo is handling mass transit in the state, while a plurality also disapproved of a proposed congestion pricing plan that is aimed at raising money for trains and buses in New York City, according to a Quinnipiac University poll on Thursday.

On Friday even some past critics of congestion pricing said the ideas hold promise for addressing gridlock while raising funds for the city's beleaguered subway system.

While it's clear that what is needed is for Albany to pass a full - blown congestion - pricing plan for New York City, there are more constructive steps that the city can take on its own, and we highlighted a half - dozen of them in our testimony, which you can read in full here.

It also called upon the MTA to respond to needs for new services in «transit deserts» while developing the terms of the congestion pricing zone.

While pundits have raised concerns that Cuomo has unveiled a slew of transportation and economic development projects without identifying all the funds to pay for them, it is music to the ears of congestion - pricing supporters.

Serving as city council speaker for less than a month, Corey Johnson on Tuesday addressed a major business association while endorsing a controversial proposal, congestion pricing, which could spark a political battle this year.

Congestion pricing does have at least one Senate Republican backer — Staten Island Sen. Andrew Lanza, who introduced a bill that would put a toll on East River bridges while cutting the toll on his borough's Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

While the governor discussed the issue in Rochester, state Assembly Democrats were behind closed doors a few hundred miles south in Manhattan discussing the MTA crisis and the ideas of congestion pricing and the millionaires tax.

While the new budget will not have a full - fledged congestion pricing plan, it is expected to impose a $ 2.75 - per trip fees on for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft that drive into a designated Manhattan central business district, with the revenue earmarked for MTA mass transit upgrades.

The mayor also said that while it is not his first choice, the proposal from Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to charge motorists new tolls for driving into the city's densest areas represents a big improvement over earlier so - called congestion pricing plans.

While Cuomo differentiated between the two proposals, he indicated a half - way plan could be in the works for congestion pricing.

Surprisingly, there's bipartisan support for congestion pricing that would charge drivers going into Manhattan while while also lowering tolls on bridges outside of the area.

While some progress is being made on a progressive version of a carbon tax, congestion - pricing advocates were hell - bent on a flat fee.

While it was not part of his agenda last year, Cuomo has indicated that a congestion pricing plan for the New York City region will be part of his 2018 agenda, and he empaneled a commission to make recommendations that are due soon.

Albanese supports a proposed congestion pricing initiative, known as Move New York, to impose tolls on the three East River bridges to help fund the subways; while de Blasio called congestion pricing a «regressive tax» and stressed that his proposal for a millionaire's tax to fund subway repairs was a more viable alternative, even though his proposal has largely been shot down by the GOP - controlled state Senate and de Blasio sees it passing only once Democrats take control of that house of the Legislature in January 2019, which de Blasio said was soon.

While City Hall made cogent arguments for Uber's cars contributing to Manhattan's congestion, and originally articulated this as the reason for an immediate cap on Uber's growth, surge pricing was rarely mentioned when Mr. de Blasio eventually broadened his attacks on Uber to portray it as another greedy corporation trying to flout the rules of government.

But while the Schwartz plan has drawn praise from both transit advocates and some previous congestion pricing opponents, the reactions from the leaders whose positions really matter have ranged from timidity to revulsion.

42 % of the GOP prefer such a tax to correct the city's transit problems while 38 % support congestion pricing.

While he said that he did not have all the details about Cuomo's congestion pricing proposal, he seemed to reject the approach.

In addition, he lent his support to a congestion pricing proposal, though he pointed to the challenges that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg faced while trying to get a congestion pricing proposal passed.

«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.

De Blasio has proposed a millionaires tax to fund subway repairs and reduced fares for low - income New Yorkers, while Cuomo is drafting a congestion pricing proposal.

While the subway crisis has created the latest opening for congestion pricing, it is largely thanks to three longtime advocates that it even remained a possibility.

One frequent criticism of the Bloomberg plan was that Manhattan reaped the benefits of congestion pricing while the other boroughs bore the costs.

Lisa DelValle, a spokeswoman for Weprin, said while the plan had been originally proposed in 2007, the legislators raised the issue again because of news articles on the issue and reports private interests groups had been formulating a new proposal for congestion pricing, which DelValle said has not been formalized.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was in attendance for Cuomo's speech and, in a news conference afterward, praised certain aspects of it, such as Cuomo's promise to fight the federal tax overhaul, while taking a wait - and - see approach as the governor still did not unveil a congestion pricing scheme, and outlining a few of the city's top priorities for the upcoming state budget, like more funding for the mayor's plan to extend pre-school to all three - year - olds.

Varying the price of the express lanes based on the amount of congestion ensures travel speeds of at least 45 mph during peak travel times while vehicles on the general - purpose lanes might be moving at a slower pace.

Subaru said SiriusXM Traffic provides drivers with real time traffic speed and flow information and detailed accident information to avoid congestion, while SiriusXM Travel Link keeps drivers connected from coast to coast by providing detailed information such as weather, fuel prices, sports scores, and stocks.

This often generates a series of tests or congestion mini-patterns while price tries to escape the influence of the old range.

They've got access to the cultural life of the city, while avoiding the congestion and sky - high housing prices of bigger metropolises.

Political battles between outlying boroughs and suburbs — where car culture is stronger — and city planners desperate to unclog streets could make New York's congestion - pricing effort drag on a good while longer.