Sentences with phrase «so congestion pricing plans»
Academics point out that traffic imposes a cost and so congestion pricing plans, by reducing traffic, balance out some of that cost for drivers.
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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.
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.
«It is time that New York City enact a congestion pricing plan that fully funds our mass transit system, improves traffic flow, and fairly applies fees so that outer - borough black car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a statement.
The mayor also said that while it is not his first choice, the proposal from Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to charge motorists new tolls for driving into the city's densest areas represents a big improvement over earlier so - called congestion pricing plans.
If he's so concerned about traffic, why, they ask, hasn't he embraced (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz's congestion pricing plan?
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.