CONGESTION PRICING DEAD IN ALBANY

By John DeSio, Monday, Apr. 7 2008 @ 3:41PM

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crusade to charge drivers to enter Manhattan died its final death in Albany today, when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced that there would be no vote on the plan in his legislative chamber.

The federal deadline to pass congestion pricing, and therefore receive $354 million in funding to enact the plan, is midnight tonight.

Silver said that the members of his Democratic conference were not prepared to move forward on the legislation, and lacking that support the bill would not be considered by his house.

"Many of them just don't believe in the concept," said Silver. "Many of them think this bill is flawed. So an overwhelming majority of the conference that opposes congestion pricing, and for that reason, the congestion pricing bill did not have anywhere near a majority of the Democratic conference, and will not be on the floor of the Assembly."

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chuck heston says:

Bloomberg, you'll stop me from driving in over my cold dead hands.

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 7 2008 @ 8:08PM

Long Island John says:

Congestion Pricing may be dead but Albany still has a chance to do the right thing and put a stop to Shell Broadwater. Let's keep Shell out of Long Island Sound!

http://www.shellbroadwater.com

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 7 2008 @ 8:49PM

CRV says:

Thank fucking God - and thank you Sheldon Silver!

Congestion pricing is a European solution to a problem that is better dealt with by limiting the number of Taxis, implementing truck delivery scheduling and doing road work at night rather than closing street during the day.

Bloomborg has given free reign to construction without impact analysis and given Traffic Agents the word to screw up traffic as much as possible and for that - he should be run out of town on a rail!

I wonder what we're breathing in lower Manhattan with all the construction - I wonder what kind of class action suits will be filed in the future against NYC when they find out that an explosion of respiratory illness among NY'ers is directly related to the crap in the air from all the construction.

Wash you car and park it on West Broadway for one day to see what's in your lungs!

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 7 2008 @ 9:07PM

sjp says:

maybe it's time bloomberg go his cops and traffic agents off their fat asses and started enforcing the traffic laws like double parking,blocking the box left turns and running red lights

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 8 2008 @ 11:00AM

Ram says:

Congestion pricing doesn't stop anybody from driving anywhere. It just gives an incentive for people to avoid peak time driving hours and shifting their driving patterns. If you are willing to pay, go ahead and drive at peak congestion time. If you want to save, avoid that time and drive 30 min earlier or later... Congestion is a MATTER OF 30 MINUTES shifts... People just speak without investigating, and just based on ideology.
By the way, congestion pricing was INVENTED IN THE USA. It was implemented in the 1800's right here in our country!!! Even the "go west" is a form of congestion pricing, having incentives for people to move to less populous areas...
In fact, following suggestions from USA based research, Singapore implemented a congestion pricing scheme...

Ignorance pricing could urgently help us in our country.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 18 2009 @ 10:39PM