{"id":1712,"date":"2019-02-26T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:30:52","slug":"statement-by-council-speaker-and-acting-public-advocate-corey-johnson-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/02\/26\/1712\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Council Speaker and Acting Public Advocate Corey Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re: Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio\u2019s Joint Congestion Pricing Announcement<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement, much of which is not new, falls far short of the bold vision we need to address our City\u2019s mass transit crisis. While I am glad to see the Mayor finally taking an interest in congestion pricing and the Governor being open to MTA reform, I strongly disagree with the idea that giving the State more control of City generated revenue and our transit infrastructure is going to magically solve our problems this time around. I am not convinced and I will have more to say on this soon \u2013 stay tuned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re: Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio\u2019s Joint Congestion Pricing Announcement<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement, much of which is not new, falls far short of the bold vision we need to address our City\u2019s mass transit crisis. While I am glad to see the Mayor finally taking an interest in congestion pricing and the Governor being open to MTA reform, I strongly disagree with the idea that giving the State more control of City generated revenue and our transit infrastructure is going to magically solve our problems this time around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/02\/26\/1712\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}