Published Feb. 14, 2024, 5:33 p.m. ET
By Joe Borelli
Congestion pricing cameras set up in Manhattan. Christopher Sadowski
Turn on the news, and you are bound to hear any one of a number of congestion pricing’s most sycophantic promoters telling us we must look to our sister city across the pond to see the fruits of its implementation.
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Published Feb. 4, 2024, 8:10 p.m. ET
By Carl Campanile
Eighteen elected officials have joined a federal lawsuit by the teachers union aimed at blocking the controversial new $15 congestion pricing toll to enter Midtown Manhattan.
More than half the plaintiffs are Democrats whose fellow party members approved the law greenlighting congestion pricing in 2019.
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Published: Mar. 18, 2023, 12:00 p.m.
By Kristin F. Dalton | kdalton@siadvance.com
The state Senate is hoping to solve the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s budget woes by charging New York City residents for a permit to park on city streets. The Senate said the plan, which wasn’t included in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed state budget or in the Assembly’s counter budget, could potentially generate $400 million annually for the agency, the New York Post reported.
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Updated: Jan. 12, 2023, 3:22 p.m. | Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 2:52 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rollout of New York City’s congestion pricing plan has long been delayed, and on Thursday, City Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) said it was with good reason as he took his latest swipe at a similar international program.
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