Sentences with phrase «vote on congestion»

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).

Liz Benjamin at the Daily Politics is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno will call a floor vote on congestion pricing today: Senators on both sides of aisle have received the heads up that the majority is preparing to call a vote on congestion pricing, despite the fact that both Senate Majority Leader Joseph -LSB-...]

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The resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer had left Silver as «the most powerful man in Albany,» and he pulled the plug on congestion pricing by refusing to even hold a vote.

StreetsPAC's Endorsement Announcement: Councilmember Rosie Mendez has been a steady voice for livable streets in the City Council, voting for congestion pricing, backing the implementation of Select Bus Service on 1st and 2nd avenues, and supporting bike share across her district.

Members of Community Board 1 voted to endorse the bill to limit tour buses when it was first introduced in 2015, and former board staffer Noah Pfefferblit testified at a City Council hearing in 2016, where he described the sightseeing buses as «significant contributors» to congestion on Lower Manhattan's already clogged streets.

Congestion pricing has died multiple deaths in public policy debates, most recently 10 years ago when the Assembly declined to take a vote on a plan backed by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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.

Blocking the congestion - pricing box (2008): The Speaker declines a vote on an amended congestion - pricing proposal.

By declining to vote on Bloomberg's congestion - pricing plan, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver seemed to once again fulfill his role the state government's resident stick - in - the - mud.

«My opposition on the issues that are important to the mayor like congestion pricing, like nonpartisan voting, like school governance, like lifting the charter school caps without any reforms... is a real problem for them,» Parker said.

Grimm charged that Recchia, as a council member, voted to raise property taxes by 18.5 percent and voted in favor of a congestion pricing plan that would have instituted an $ 8 toll on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Council Member Rosie Mendez has been a steady voice for livable streets in the City Council, voting for congestion pricing, backing the implementation of Select Bus Service on 1st and 2nd avenues, and supporting bike share across her district.

On Saturday, at the party's Autumn Conference, Welsh Liberal Democrat members voted to support a solution to develop the A48 Southern Distributor Road to move local traffic off the M4 and reduce congestion, and ruled out supporting a  # 1 billion relief road south of Newport.

He also angered Giuliani's successor, Mike Bloomberg, when he declined to even schedule a vote on the mayor's congestion pricing plan.

He said conferences about congestion pricing had been going on since last summer and that the Assembly had voted to support more study of the issue.

Beyond the payroll tax and charitable donation programs, Cuomo offered up ideas to reduce traffic congestion in New York City, expand availability of flu vaccines for children, impose restrictions on sex offenders, provide funding for an early voting program, ban synthetic marijuana sales and target physicians who engage in medical misconduct.

The club will also discuss and vote on resolutions regarding several big issues, including congestion pricing, neighborhood parking permits and the MTA's contingency plan for the L Train shutdown.

New York City is coming up on the four year anniversary of a moment that will live in infamy for transit riders and sustainable transportation advocates: the demise of congestion pricing, which was put down in the state Assembly without a vote on April 7, 2008.