Sentences with phrase «congestion pricing efforts»

In the end, the congestion zone became a losing battle, the latest in a long line of failed congestion pricing efforts since at least the 1970s.

Nine years ago, a congestion pricing effort led by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg died in Albany after state legislative leaders refused to bring it to a vote.

Nine years ago, a congestion pricing effort led by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg died in Albany after state legislative leaders refused to bring it to a vote.

Not exact matches

She intends to endorse the MoveNY plan (she was a supporter of the previous congestion - pricing effort), and will continue to work with stakeholders and the communities to transform Amsterdam Avenue, one of the most dangerous streets in New York City, into a complete street.

Outerborough opposition to congestion pricing remains a key obstacle to legislative approval, and it's unclear how much political capital Cuomo wants to invest in the effort.

But every time congestion pricing has come up — and not just recently — it's been shot down by legislators in Albany, from John Lindsay's attempt in the 1970s to Michael Bloomberg's close - but - no - cigar efforts during his administration, which ultimately died (thanks to Sheldon Silver) in 2008.

Indeed, De Blasio seems unwilling to put forth any effort on congestion pricing since it's almost certainly doomed to die in Albany:

Uber, which has backed efforts to create a congestion pricing plan that adds tolls at key points around Manhattan, knocked the proposal.

The effort to institute cashless tolling along the state Thruway system should be separate from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to institute congestion pricing at key points in New York City, Republican Sen. Michael Razenhofer said in a Wednesday Capital Tonight interview.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo today dismissed a recently resurrected effort at creating «congestion pricing» for motor vehicles in Manhattan.

ALBANY — With chances of a congestion pricing plan being part of the state budget fading, a coalition of 83 groups is making a last - ditch effort to revive the issue.

It was Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat facing re-election in November, who almost single - handedly revived congestion pricing last summer after decades of failed efforts.

In any case, the pieces are there so that, with enough effort, Gov. Andrew Cuomo could push congestion pricing through the state legislature.

And they've always had plenty of support from elected officials from elsewhere around the state, to derail any effort to impose toll sanity, including Mayor Bloomberg's failed congestion - pricing bid in 2008.

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.

But he said passage of the millionaires tax or congestion pricing should not stop efforts to make subways more affordable — a move he said could make congestion pricing a «powerful political argument.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio's transportation commissioner on Tuesday morning held a competing press conference in Queens about the administration's effort to cut traffic deaths, a goal that advocates say congestion pricing would further.

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.

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).