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Congestion Pricing in the 9th inning...
April 6, 2008
Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Mariano Rivera is taking the mound now, trying to do his magic to pull out a win...
Crain's, the Washington Post, the NY Daily News, the NY Post are all telling various stories of last-minute negotiations, hallway discussions, and everything else that goes into creating a bill that the majority of NYS legislators can support.
Here at NRDC, we're hopeful that the legislators will succeed in crafting legislation that enables congestion pricing to be tried in New York City...and legislation that provides as much environmental protection as possible during the program.
Issues include having the program start as a pilot project of 3 - 5 years (the original idea, BTW), enhancing the environmental review provisions to ensure the best possible final decisions on what the ultimate program will look like (stronger environmental review is always a good idea, of course), and others.
There are lots of good ideas flying around, and we're hopeful that the state's leaders can throw enough strikes to get the job done.
Stay tuned.
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Maria Sutto — Apr 7 2008 10:33 AM
For your info, please get hold of a just finished collaborative study between WE ACT, Urban Design Lab of Columbia University
on congestion pricing.
Be well,
Maria sutto