Sentences with phrase «backing of congestion pricing»

Not exact matches

Though few lawmakers came out publicly against the plan, it is now clear that congestion pricing was in trouble in the hallways and back rooms of Albany long before it was left out of the new state budget.

Now we need Senate Majority Leader Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Heastie to join Governor Cuomo in backing congestion pricing and producing a version of the plan on par with the Move NY proposal.

StreetsPAC's Endorsement Announcement: Councilmember Rosie Mendez has been a steady voice for livable streets in the City Council, voting for congestion pricing, backing the implementation of Select Bus Service on 1st and 2nd avenues, and supporting bike share across her district.

Back in January, a traffic advisory panel appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo — which includes a number of former city and state politicians, the chairman of the Regional Plan Association, and the mayor of Yonkers — released a report outlining how congestion pricing could be implemented in New York City.

The ambitious congestion pricing plan initially backed by Governor Andrew Cuomo is not part of the state budget agreement made on Friday, the New York Times reports.

Cuomo backed a congestion pricing as a means of funding the ailing mass transit and subway system in New York City, criticism of which for him reached a boiling point with strap hangers amid a series of delays and disruptions last summer.

The groups back a plan known as congestion pricing that would impose new tolls on motorists entering the busiest parts of Manhattan.

When asked about times they had bucked their respective parties, Weprin said he had spoken out publicly against Obama's stance that Israel go back to its pre-1967 borders as part of the Middle East peace process and that he stood up to Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) on term limits and congestion pricing.

Scott Rechler, another member of the task force, urged Assembly leaders in particular to join the governor in backing congestion pricing since many of the members, including the speaker, Carl E. Heastie, represent city residents who would directly benefit.

Council Member Rosie Mendez has been a steady voice for livable streets in the City Council, voting for congestion pricing, backing the implementation of Select Bus Service on 1st and 2nd avenues, and supporting bike share across her district.

The groups, ALIGN NY and New York Communities for Change, will release a report calling for a mix of plans favored by both Cuomo — congestion pricing during peak travel times — and a millionaires tax — backed by de Blasio, to help bolster the finances of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

If a new congestion pricing plan has any chance of avoiding the grim fate of its predecessor, it will need the backing of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Kathryn Wylde, the president and chief executive officer of the Partnership for New York City, a group of top business leaders that backed the Bloomberg plan, said it had not been the right time, with a new governor still getting his bearings, to try to pass a controversial congestion pricing plan.

This time congestion pricing is back at a moment of crisis — above ground, streets are becoming increasingly snarled in large part because of the boom in ride - hailing apps, while below ground the problem is even worse as the city's aging subway system is riddled with delays and in dire need of money.

Defying Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo on Thursday appointed a panel to study congestion pricing and report back to him by the end of the year.