Sentences with phrase «congestion pricing scheme»

It will be spending «tens of thousands» of dollars over the next week on print and digital advertising, pushing for a more comprehensive congestion pricing scheme.

Also road congestion pricing schemes have been implemented in a limited number of urban areas as a transportation demand management tool to try to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

asked Michael O'Loughlin, who helped lead former mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed congestion pricing scheme and now runs Cab Riders United, an advocacy group.

The surcharge is a key element in the three - phase congestion pricing scheme that a Cuomo - created panel recommended earlier this year.

Unlike de Blasio, Johnson backs a so - called congestion pricing scheme to toll drivers to get into Manhattan.

At the same time, Schwartz seeks to avoid the fate of former mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion pricing scheme by cultivating outer - borough support.

Schwartz has taken care to address the concerns of outer borough drivers about East River tolls in an effort to avoid the political uproar that caused a previous congestion pricing scheme — backed heavily by then - mayor Michael Bloomberg — to sink in the Albany morass.

But, as transportation expert Nicole Gelinas points out, the bargain implied in medallion sales can still be honored in the context of any new congestion pricing scheme — and should be.

Instead, there are two worksheets anyone opening the BTA will use: «User Inputs» allows anyone to adjust 44 different factors that impact who is charged what under a hypothetical congestion pricing scheme.

London and Stockholm's congestion pricing schemes illustrate this reality more overtly.

The basic outlines of Schwartz» plan are explicitly intended to be more palatable to the outer - borough voters than former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's» failed congestion pricing scheme, which didn't offer explicit benefits for outer - borough drivers.

Singapore has had a congestion pricing scheme since 1975.

«If we're going to address the traffic and do a congestion pricing scheme, it's got to be fair and not punish the people from the outer boroughs,» Lanza told reporters.

A congestion pricing scheme simply will not happen, not in today's climate where politicians happily GUT customer service.

Advocates who have been calling in vain for a congestion pricing scheme for more than a decade on Friday greeted the report's release with hope.

Travelling fairly regularly to London over the last 15 or so years, I can testify that the congestion pricing scheme has been an unqualified success.

Cuomo's support comes as for - hire vehicle companies lobby hard against the proposed fee, pushing instead for a more comprehensive, yet still elusive, congestion pricing scheme.

Although, Malliotakis did not directly answer either part of the question — whether she would agree to fund half of the MTA emergency plan and whether she favors a congestion pricing scheme — she has publicly said before that the city could use funds set aside in reserves for the MTA emergency action plan.

Mr. Schwartz has worked extensively behind - the - scenes to line up support for his plan, known as Move NY, from labor unions and business organizations, some of whom resisted Mr. Bloomberg's congestion pricing scheme.

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.

I recall reading — but can't give you citations off the top of my head — that this also plays out in the form of people systematically overestimating the costs of change, and underestimating the benefits; once change does happen (for example the congestion pricing schemes in London and Stockholm), people report that the costs are less than anticipated and the benefits greater than anticipated.

The plan also demands the city's congestion pricing scheme, which would fund maintenance of the MTA, not burden drivers and that the city implement the health and wellness fund, which is the product of Taxi Workers Alliance victories in 2012 and 2013.