I've sat with the organization, I was very supportive
of congestion pricing so any option that provides something similar, I'm open to exploring it and seeing what kind of support it can get,» Mark - Viverito said.
Not exact matches
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.»
But MTA board members showed little appetite for even biennial increases at their meeting Wednesday, talking instead about the prospect
of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio agreeing to some form
of congestion pricing or a
so - called millionaire's tax.
To see the mayor praise
so many Democrats — particularly Silver, who has killed some
of Bloomberg's big legacy projects like the West Side Stadium and
congestion pricing — is very interesting, especially since he spent
so many years being the Senate GOP's single biggest individual contributor.
Academics point out that traffic imposes a cost and
so congestion pricing plans, by reducing traffic, balance out some
of that cost for drivers.
Mr. Cuomo has yet to release a detailed
congestion -
pricing plan, but most schemes being discussed call for tolling vehicles to enter crowded parts
of Manhattan, and doing
so in a way that that does not slow the flow
of traffic.
Stockholm is one
of several cities around the world to institute
so - called
congestion pricing over the last few years.
Aaron notes that de Blasio is against
congestion pricing and hands out tens
of thousands
of placards
so that people can park free in crosswalks and bike lanes with impunity.
Finding a direct connection between network
congestion and
price is not a straightforward task,
so it's not entirely clear whether miners are profiting directly from the lack
of Segregated Witness (SegWit) activation or a hard - forking increase in the block size limit.