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A broader proposal for congestion pricing with tolls at points around Manhattan has been more difficult to gain a consensus on in the Legislature.

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«If Governor Cuomo leads with a strong congestion pricing plan that generates billions of dollars for public transit, he will have the support of millions of frustrated subway and bus riders who are desperate for relief.»

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.

And it appears that this time, Cuomo might be listening: Though the governor has yet to make any public remarks on the matter, both the Times's Emma Fitzsimmons and NY1's Zack Fink reported via Twitter that Cuomo is looking at how to implement some form of congestion pricing in the city, with the proposal to (potentially) be discussed when the New York State legislature reconvenes for its next session in January.

At his annual executive budget presentation, Cuomo revealed that his Fix NYC panel — charged last year with coming up with a fair congestion pricing plan — will release its recommendations by Friday and that they will define a geographic «pricing zone» for drivers within the borough.

Congestion pricing, which was last killed in Albany in 2008, may be revived by the governor amid his battle with the mayor over who should pay for the MTA.

His group's support for proposals like Move NY and the plan released by the governor's Fix NYC panel comes with a significant caveat: «Congestion pricing will only work if the playing field is leveled by eliminating the sales tax on black cars so that one equal fee can be applied to both cabs and black cars.

With just a week left in the Albany legislative session, the black car industry's biggest trade organization on Friday announced its support for congestion pricing and said it was launching an ad campaign to broadcast the message.

The simmering feud between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo continued this week with the former opposing the latter's newly - expressed support for congestion pricing.

Cuomo is seemingly on board with the idea; so is Andy Byford, the new president of New York City Transit, who recently told City and State that if congestion pricing can «help expedite the pace of improvements and make the system work better» then «I'm all for it.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday launched a new advisory panel that's charged with developing proposals to alleviate congestion on New York City's roads and highways amid his stated push for a congestion pricing plan next year.

A City Hall insider confirmed that forging a better relationship with Albany may indeed be a goal for Bloomberg in the third term, particularly since it might be his last chance (he has insisted a fourth term is not in the cards) for him to push through any legacy projects of the sort the Legislature has heretofore rejected like congestion pricing and the West Side Stadium.

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.

«I'm going to Albany next week for budget hearing day, where I'm gonna try to meet with each one of them and delve a little bit more into the details of congestion pricing,» he added.

Combined with his changing stance on congestion pricing (he voted in favor in the Council, but now claims to oppose it) this position raises questions as to whether his positions on the issues are driven by principles or the desire to be returned to office for a third term.

But with the subways in crisis and searching for a dedicated funding source, congestion pricing could be resurrected.

Like New York, London flirted with the idea of congestion pricing for decades before finally creating an eight - square - mile congestion zone in the center of the city in 2003.

But, with elections for state offices taking place this year, many leaders in Albany remain reluctant to sign off on a congestion pricing system.

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.

This year, the issues faces lawmakers and Cuomo have been especially complex: Congestion pricing for New York City, a $ 4.4 billion shortfall that's being plugged with the help of slowed spending and tax and fee increases and the possible adoption of a payroll tax to either replace or supplant the personal income tax.

With the budget deadline looming, Alex Matthiessen, the founder and director of Move NY, an early proponent of congestion pricing that has expanded into the Fix NYC Transit coalition, said supporters were pushing hard to ensure that infrastructure funding for a congestion zone be included in the budget.

«With his bold embrace of congestion pricing, the governor is providing the kind of leadership that New Yorkers are starving for,» Mr. Matthiessen said.

On a recent conference call with a congestion - pricing supporters, Mr. Cuomo reassured them that he was not backing down and would push for a plan that included a congestion zone, according to people familiar with the discussion who did not want to be identified discussing a private conversation.

His aides pointed out that relatively few state legislators — including Democratic Assembly members from New York City — have publicly supported congestion pricing compared with the broad legislative support for marriage equality and the minimum wage going into budget negotiations.

But congestion pricing's prospects remain uncertain — not for the first time — as the April 1 deadline for a state budget rapidly approaches with no agreement among Albany political leaders.

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.

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 plan is at odds with what Cuomo wants to do, namely institute a previously shelved plan for congestion pricing in New York City.

In a recent interview with Capital, former assemblymember Jack McEneny recalled that Silver personally supported congestion pricing, but decided to take the blame for its demise on behalf of the conference members who opposed it.

According to someone who was involved in the Bloomberg campaign to pass congestion pricing, and who asked for anonymity for fear of angering the current speaker, Heastie was not only on board with that plan, but had pledged his support early — by 2007.

Now New York is seeking to join this growing wave with a new surcharge on ride - hailing and taxi trips that could become a central piece of an ambitious congestion pricing plan for Manhattan.

The governor has committed to his half of the subway turnaround plan and, Fix NYC, a panel he formed, unveiled a congestion pricing plan in January that includes the installation of a zone pricing program — beginning with trucks and subsequently for all vehicles — entering Manhattan's central business district below 60th Street.

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.

Next Steps Along with congestion pricing recommendations, Cuomo is also awaiting the results of a study he's ordered of the possibility of eliminating a separate minimum wage for tipped workers, which could have significant impact in New York City.

In our analysis we found that an urban development strategy focused on access for all, rather than for a minority who use cars, with congestion pricing, realistic parking charges, and speed limits low enough to stop the slaughter of pedestrians and cyclists would as a co-benefit also reduce oil use and CO2 emissions from cars to barely more than twice today's levels in 2020, way below the trends.

Now, for the first time since 2008, with the subway in the sorriest state it's been in since the 1980s, congestion pricing is back.

It would be great if parkers could pay with Metrocards — the DOT could create the parked - car equivalent of congestion pricing, charging different rates for different times.

$ 354 million in immediate transit improvements and the long - term health of the New York regional transit system are at stake with one week left for the New York City Council and State Legislature to pass congestion pricing legislation.

We've been disappointed on various levels, whether it's the slowness to change rules related to brownfields, whether it was the state assembly's refusal to vote on congestion pricing, whether it's the Public Service Commission taking a really long time to come up with the final recommendations on the energy portfolio standard proceedings (so we finally can have really ambitious and well thought out energy efficiency projects for New York City).

This analysis is embedded in the kaleidoscopic spreadsheet I maintain to model «congestion pricing» for New York (download here, Excel required; go to Delays and Delay - Costs tabs) but more conveniently summarized in Time Thieves, an article I wrote a half - dozen years ago with then - Princeton student Will Fisher.

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He dismissed attempts to equate his proposed congestion fee with a tax, lashing out at the federal government for making the dubious connection in refusing to pay London's pricing charge.

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