If it shows to be effective, it could swing
the debate on congestion pricing.
At 8:30 a.m., ABNY hosts
a debate on the congestion pricing proposal, featuring Assemblyman David Weprin, The Mezzanine, 55 Broadway, Manhattan.
Not exact matches
Congestion pricing has died multiple deaths in public policy
debates, most recently 10 years ago when the Assembly declined to take a vote
on a plan backed by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Sir Rod Eddington reported to the previous Labour government that road
pricing could help tackle
congestion and in 2005 launched a «national
debate»
on road
pricing, in order that it could be considered as one possible remedy.
Those who were around for the
debate over
congestion pricing in Albany the first time say it wasn't just the details of the plan that led it to fall apart, it was how it got sprung
on lawmakers at the last minute.
That's why we called for a
debate on road
pricing back in 2005, and why we are working with interested local authorities to bring forward local schemes as targeted solutions to specific
congestion problems.
«The current political
debate over how to fund New York's transit pits
congestion pricing against a tax
on the wealthiest New Yorkers,» the groups» report states.
«If my kids are riding
on a school bus and the school bus needs brakes and I have the money to fix that, I'm gonna fix it,» responded Dietl, to a question from
debate panellist Gloria Pazmino, a Politico New York reporter, about whether the candidates would fund half the MTA emergency action plan and support a potential
congestion pricing proposal.