Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Congestion Pricing

Livingstone: Businesses Led on Congestion Charge

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

Fearing that London’s ever-worsening traffic congestion would drive industry to other European cities, business leaders first broached the topic of congestion charging for the British capital, according to plan architect Mayor Ken Livingstone. At a C40 Climate Summit panel entitled "Beating Congestion & Surviving Your Next Election," Livingstone said Tuesday that the business group […]

The Clock is Ticking for PlaNYC

By Jason Varone | May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

A delegation of approximately 30 members of the Campaign for New York’s Future are traveling to Albany today to meet with more than two dozen state legislators and other public officials. Today’s trip follows a series of meetings on Monday in which key coalition leaders joined Mayor Bloomberg to call for urgent State action on […]

Days Numbered for City Parking Privileges?

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

Michael Bloomberg (front row, fourth from right) with other mayors at the C40 Summit City employees should not have the right to free parking any more than New Yorkers who labor in the private sector, Mayor Bloomberg said Tuesday, hinting that the perk which entices 35 percent of government workers to drive to Manhattan could […]

PlanNYC’s Public Political Push Starts Today

By Jason Varone | May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

From a press release that just came across the Streetsblog transom: Leading members of the Campaign for New York’s Future, a broad coalition of 80 environmental, public health, civic, labor, community and business organizations, will today join Mayor Bloomberg in separate meetings with Governor Eliot Spitzer and State legislators to help call attention to the […]

Congestion Pricing Foes Will Go into Attack Mode

By Sarah Goodyear | May 11, 2007 | 24 Comments

Crain’s New York Business reports that the group leading the campaign against congestion pricing will begin a lobbying blitz aimed at derailing Mayor Bloomberg’s pricing proposal next week, just as the mayor goes to Albany to try to win state legislators over to his PlaNYC initiative. The arguments to be mounted by the "Keep NYC […]

High-Emission Vehicles to Pay £200 ($400!) to Enter London

By Sarah Goodyear | May 10, 2007 | 4 Comments

London mayor Ken Livingstone, whose congestion-pricing plan has served as a model for Mayor Bloomberg’s, is expected to unveil today an even more radical measure aimed at reducing pollution in his city. According to the Guardian, Livingstone’s proposal would target high-emission commercial vehicles: Ken Livingstone is expected to confirm that older, "dirtier" lorries and buses […]

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