The Early Returns on NYC's Congestion Pricing Are Pretty Impressive

The Early Returns on NYC's Congestion Pricing Are Pretty Impressive

Car traffic is down, transit usage is up, and everything is moving faster.

Groups to Senate Committee: Don't Mess with Congestion Pricing - Reinvent Albany

In advance of the Senate Transportation Committee Meeting today at noon, Reinvent Albany is reissuing this joint memo of opposition from 22 organizations for 17 bills that would repeal or add new carve-outs to the MTA’s congestion relief program (see below for the full memo). S533 (Martins), which is on the meeting agenda, would repeal the MTA’s successful congestion relief program. Given the success of this nation-leading program in meeting its…

Congestion pricing is incredibly effective public policy - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This shouldn’t be surprising — it’s a model that has also worked well elsewhere — but congestion pricing in New York City has been a huge success: And what about the concerns about pollution of people in the South Bronx, which some anti-tax anti-transit suburbanites cynically grasped as a pretext? Community groups were especially concerned that drivers avoiding the tolls might be diverted and drive more pollution to the South Bronx, which has s…