Sentences with phrase «need congestion pricing»

But we need congestion pricing systems to alleviate downtown traffic problems.

Q: But we need congestion pricing systems to alleviate downtown traffic problems.

We need congestion pricing to rationalize use of our congestion highways currently being consumed by individuals surrounded by their personal 120 square feet of metal.

Not exact matches

De Blasio has backed a tax hike on the rich that would provide long - term needs for the subway, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo has revived a congestion pricing plan for Manhattan.

Assembly Democrats unveiled a one - house budget plan that pushes a modified congestion pricing plan to send needed funds to the MTA.

Even if lawmakers do not include a complete congestion pricing plan in the state budget, due March 31, they could approve funding so work can start on the infrastructure that will be needed once all sides agree.

Though some see this unforeseen development as an opportunity to move on much - needed reforms in Albany, it's not great news for advocates of congestion pricing.

«I think we need comprehensive congestion pricing not just on Uber and Lyft and black cars and stuff like that,» said Nixon, who stressed that she does believe such fees should be included.

During a Brooklyn subway trip Wednesday, Cynthia Nixon said New York City needs a «comprehensive» congestion pricing plan that includes new tolls on roads and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo as someone who «is not very interested... in investing in infrastructure.»

Cabs and for - hire vehicles operating in Manhattan would shoulder the responsibility of funding fixes for the MTA and other statewide transportation needs under a congestion pricing plan put forth by the New York State Assembly on Monday.

Bowing to pressure from his Assembly conference, he nixed Mayor Bloomberg's congestion - pricing plan, which would have slashed auto traffic in Manhattan and provided desperately needed funds to expand and improve our transit system.

«We talk about the MTA needing money and we talk about the fact that you have to upgrade the subways — which I don't think anyone would doubt,» Katz said, «but the past [congestion pricing] proposals that have been given to us don't have any directed stream to the MTA for particular upgrades on the system.»

Now we need Senate Majority Leader Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Heastie to join Governor Cuomo in backing congestion pricing and producing a version of the plan on par with the Move NY proposal.

Ultimately, the mayor needs to join Gov. Andrew Cuomo in support for congestion pricing, which has proved effective in cities like London and Stockholm, according to Jon Orcutt, spokesman at the nonprofit TransitCenter and former policy director at the city's Department of Transportation.

Governor Cuomo's Fix NYC panel, which recommended better traffic management and congestion pricing, specifically identified the need to study the negative contribution of tour buses to the high cost of traffic congestion.

«Congestion pricing is something that needs to be seriously considered,» Lhota said.

But he also had some misgivings; he felt the proposal would work best in tandem with imposing his millionaires tax, to fund improvements to the subway; and he also felt the congestion pricing plan needed to ensure there was a way that funds generated from it would only go toward the city's buses and subways, the New York Times explained.

Since the congestion pricing plan still needs to be approved by the state legislature, concerns on both sides will have to be taken into account no matter what.

Malliotakis, who represents the East Shore of Staten Island in the New York State Assembly, cast congestion pricing as «in broad terms, something that needs to be looked at» and described «the Sam Schwartz plan [as] a starting point for a real conversation.»

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

«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.

While it's clear that what is needed is for Albany to pass a full - blown congestion - pricing plan for New York City, there are more constructive steps that the city can take on its own, and we highlighted a half - dozen of them in our testimony, which you can read in full here.

It also called upon the MTA to respond to needs for new services in «transit deserts» while developing the terms of the congestion pricing zone.

Legislators with substantive concerns about congestion pricing typically represent districts in the boroughs outside Manhattan that have unmet transit needs.

Groups for and against the congestion pricing plan to fund needed subway repairs by tolling drivers below 60th Street in Manhattan clashed over its specifics during a Manhattan rally — but they both added that either way, the MTA's involvement guarantees problems.

Cuomo, in suggesting that congestion pricing is a better alternative to raise needed money for the cash - strapped MTA, seemingly took several shots at the mayor, his friend turned political foe.

And during an interview Friday on WNYC radio, Mr. Cuomo again reiterated the need for congestion pricing, saying «I'm pushing that very hard.»

Neither congestion pricing nor a new tax would deal with the immediate needs or fund the emergency plan that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, has undertaken to make urgent repairs to trains, signals and other equipment.

«Bottom line — clearly congestion pricing is an idea whose time has come and we need to be discussing all options so we can invest in our system long - term.»

ALBANY — Assembly Democrats unveiled a budget proposal Monday that pushes a modified congestion pricing plan to send needed funds to the cash - strapped MTA.

Here's the reality: de Blasio and Cuomo need to put aside their differences, stop the stalemate, and create a more reliable funding stream for New York's transit system that involves both congestion pricing and a millionaires tax.»

Bloomberg needs nine of them onboard in order to win the vote that's now scheduled for Thursday at 1:30 p.m. And if the City Council thought they were under pressure during last spring's debate over congestion pricing, they're about to learn what serious arm - twisting feels like.

Ms. Aument said congestion pricing had redefined tolls, and made them more palatable to drivers who have come to see them as the price for a faster, more reliable trip to work, home or wherever they need to be.

Technology has advanced in the decade since the last major congestion - pricing push in New York, and a growing number of cities and municipalities have harnessed it to unclog roads, shorten commutes and raise millions of dollars for transportation needs.

If a new congestion pricing plan has any chance of avoiding the grim fate of its predecessor, it will need the backing of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

«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.

«This is a smart, comprehensive plan to address the challenges in New York, while taking into account the interests and needs of all New Yorkers,» Sam Schwartz, CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering, a congestion pricing advocate and a former city traffic commissioner, said.

Unlike existing MTA taxes on real estate and payrolls, congestion pricing «is much more flexible and could go up and down to meet funding need,» she said.

The chairman later said during a press conference at Penn Station that congestion pricing also «seriously needs to be considered» as another way to raise capital and reduce the number of vehicles in Manhattan business districts.

State Senator Martin J. Golden of Brooklyn, one of two Republican senators from the New York City area, said that the $ 17 toll on the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge that links Staten Island and Brooklyn would need to be addressed before he could support any congestion pricing plan.

Torres, also endorsed by StreetsPAC, is well versed in a broad range of progressive issues — from participatory budgeting to the battle against «predatory equity» and derelict landlords to sustainability, a key policy concern of his that encompasses issues including the health impacts of truck exhaust pollution, the need for congestion pricing to reduce traffic, the availability of nutritious fresh food, and the maintenance of affordable and livable housing.

When you need to do is to study congestions as part of the market price action, embrace it, and make use of it.

In order for New York City to become more energy efficient, it needs home rule, free from the interests of Albany, as the recent debacle over congestion pricing shows.

If we're going to do congestion pricing, we also need to consider raising the cost of riding public transportation (and using income based discounts).

This time congestion pricing is back at a moment of crisis — above ground, streets are becoming increasingly snarled in large part because of the boom in ride - hailing apps, while below ground the problem is even worse as the city's aging subway system is riddled with delays and in dire need of money.

But there's really no need to use cameras for the purpose of monitoring water usage — and the same is true of congestion pricing (see the next question).

Residual load - balancing needs could be met through rapid - response hydropower (seconds to minutes) followed by natural gas with prices further adjusted by congestion, distance and volume needed.

And unlike congestion pricing, City Hall doesn't need permission from Albany to make it happen.