Sentences with phrase «congestion pricing revenue»

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Jurisdictions have turned to mobility pricing to address a specific or combination of objectives, such as managing congestion in rapidly growing urban areas to facilitate the movement of people and goods, generating revenue for transportation infrastructure projects, maintenance and improvements, or environmental reasons.

Lawmakers in the Assembly are yet to embrace either Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for a congestion pricing system that would create tolls at areas in Manhattan in order to relieve traffic and generate revenue for the subway.

State Senate Republicans aren't ready to embrace congestion pricing, but they are prepared to seize a portion of New York City's sales tax revenue to help fund the MTA.

Facing growing pressure to create a dedicated revenue stream for the MTA, which has proposed an $ 836 million plan to reverse failing subway performance, Cuomo last summer declared congestion pricing as an «idea whose time has come.»

Alternative solutions to the payroll tax, such as bridge tolls and / or congestion pricing, have social benefits in addition to revenue for transit.

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.

The handful of elected officials from the state and city level have forcefully denounced the prospect of new bridge tolls as Cuomo drafts a congestion pricing plan for New York City that would raise revenue for its mass transit network.

He favors bridge tolls and congestion pricing, as well as auctioning residential parking permits to raise revenue to pay for mass transit projects.

«significant investment in transit before and during the implementation of congestion pricing; reinvestment of revenues generated directly into public transit; dynamic tolling that changes commuter behavior; and information campaigns that generate broad public support for congestion pricing.»

The governor has in recent months said he will revive a call for congestion pricing in New York City that would provide extra revenue for the transit system.

The move would require legislative action as would Cuomo's congestion pricing plan, which is aimed at alleviating traffic during peak times in New York City and boost revenue for the ailing subway system.

«We need new, smart, sustainable revenue streams, and one piece of that puzzle is congestion pricing,» he continued.

It said that dedicated revenue sources would be necessary to support the subway corporation, such as taxes, fees or congestion pricing.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who controls the transportation authority, recently revived a push for congestion pricing, a proposal to charge some drivers entering Manhattan to reduce gridlock and to raise additional revenue for public transit.

Though Governor Andrew Cuomo has expressed support for instituting a congestion pricing program to reduce street congestion in Manhattan and create a dedicated source of revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and said that he is fighting for such a scheme in state budget negotiations, the governor has recently indicated that he may only be able to win a modest first step, raising the ire of those expecting more.

«First, Governor Cuomo must use a portion of the new revenue to help implement comprehensive congestion pricing, by constructing cordon infrastructure and addressing needs in transit deserts around the city.

Low - income New Yorkers would disproportionately gain from congestion pricing that raised revenue for mass transit, and the costs would be primarily paid by those who can afford it most.

Uber said it supports congestion pricing if it's applied fairly and all revenue is earmarked for mass transit.

Congestion pricing will not generate all the revenues necessary for the MTA.

Road pricing should be about reducing congestion, not simply revenue collection.

The NY Daily News urges de Blasio to get on board with Cuomo's call for congestion pricing to provide a revenue stream for the NYC transit system, saying it's that or a fare hike, because the mayor's idea of taxing the rich is a non-starter in Albany.

Cuomo has revived a proposal to institute congestion pricing; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to hike taxes on millionaires to boost revenue.

A spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg, Marc La Vorgna, said the former mayor contributed by fighting vigorously to get the state to adopt a congestion pricing plan that would have provided a huge amount of revenue.

Congestion pricing, for Schwartz, represents an opportunity to solve a traffic problem and a transit - revenue problem at once.

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.

He has redirected hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, and, until recently, he steadfastly opposed congestion pricing as a revenue source for the languishing mass transit system.

Meanwhile, de Blasio faces two potential roadblocks: Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who says he's exploring a different revenue stream of ways to use congestion pricing to pay for subway repairs, and the state Senate, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported.

Cuomo has said he would propose some type of congestion - pricing plan that would charge motorists entering busy parts of Manhattan at peak hours, with the revenue generated going to the MTA.

Nearly six in ten New York City adults, 57 %, think it is better to raise taxes on those earning more than $ 500,000 annually to raise revenue to improve transit and reduce traffic rather than implement congestion pricing.

Another missed opportunity is Cuomo's hasty rejection of congestion pricing as a potential source of revenue.

They developed their own congestion pricing plan, which included Mr. Schwartz's toll swap and revenue for roads and bridges.

He also proposed that part of the revenue raised from congestion pricing be reserved for roads and bridges to benefit drivers instead of all going to public transit.

And there were suggestions on how to spend the revenue — as much as $ 1.5 billion annually — from a congestion pricing plan.

Congestion pricing «never really went away» said Mitchell L. Moss, the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, noting that «it has an intrinsic appeal — a single solution that raises revenue, improves our environment and reduces congestiCongestion pricing «never really went away» said Mitchell L. Moss, the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, noting that «it has an intrinsic appeal — a single solution that raises revenue, improves our environment and reduces congestioncongestion.»

The congestion pricing framework outlines a three - year phase - in that would provide revenue of $ 1 billion to $ 1.5 billion a year starting in 2020, most of which would be intended for the MTA Capital Plan.

Given that details about the MTA's capital spending plan are only now coming out, the fact that more than half of the polled New Yorkers support congestion pricing if the revenues go to transit is actually pretty impressive.

I have never worked out why the State Government can not devise a contract revision — congestion price and, should there be any revenue shortfall, we will compensate you.

Congestion pricing «never really went away» said Mitchell L. Moss, the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, noting that «it has an intrinsic appeal — a single solution that raises revenue, improves our environment and reduces congestiCongestion pricing «never really went away» said Mitchell L. Moss, the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, noting that «it has an intrinsic appeal — a single solution that raises revenue, improves our environment and reduces congestioncongestion.»

They developed their own congestion pricing plan, which included Mr. Schwartz's toll swap and revenue for roads and bridges.

Using modern cryptography, a congestion pricing system could simultaneously protect our locational privacy and allow tolling authorities to collect revenue.

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?

For one thing, tackling climate change will, aside from requiring more investment, generate more revenue from the auctioning of carbon credits and other more local programs such as congestion pricing.