Sentences with phrase «over congestion pricing»

Yes, he still preferred a millionaires tax over congestion pricing.

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.

Peter Ajemian, a spokesman for the governor, pointed out that Cuomo has been the one to spearhead talks over congestion pricing for the city.

City voters prefer a millionaire's tax over congestion pricing as a way to fund the MTA, according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.

A majority of New Yorkers prefer a millionaire's tax over congestion pricing when it comes to funding fixes to the city's crumbling transit infrastructure, a new poll found.

The mayor had an uneasy relationship with the Senate Democrats, even though he had once been allied with former Senate President Malcolm Smith (a falling out over congestion pricing put a chill on that political friendship).

When it comes to ways to fund improvements to mass transit, the majority of polled residents favor taxing millionaires, a plan proposed by de Blasio, over a congestion pricing plan.

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.

The debate over congestion pricing is largely over, but it has focused attention on yet another fraught issue for drivers in and around New York City: pricey bridge tolls.

Support was highest in Queens, with 71 percent of those polled favoring the millionaire's tax over congestion pricing.

In Focus Host Cheryl Wills sits down with State Sen. Michael Gianaris in Albany to talk about the city's deteriorating transit system and the debate over congestion pricing and the Millionaire's 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.