Down to the wire
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- July
- 13
The deadline for New York to commit to congestion pricing is Monday and legislators are going down to the wire.
The plan, based on London’s, calls for charging drivers in Manhattan below 86th Street weekdays. The price would be $8 for cars and $21 for trucks.
The deadline comes from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Transportation is to allocate up to $500 million to each of three cities to implement pilot programs to cut traffic and pollution. New York City hopes to be one of them, but needs the commitment from the state’s legislators to qualify.
State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno supports Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has not said.
Stay tuned.
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do you all realize that one wouldnt be able to get to brooklyn properly? The congestion would now be put on all the roadways currently under construction. This is ridiculous and not fair to people driving through. Because lets face it, just how are the drivers going to be charged? put up a toll and thoroughly hose over traffic? The answer for the congestion is to remove the taxis. Always has been, always will be the answer.
Everyone seems to forget that one monday under Guiliani (sic?) when they struck and it was the best day for NO traffic in the history of NY. go figure. of course they want to cover that up.
Instead of charging the working class for needing to get to work yet again. How about moving the taxis and finding other work for them to do, like maybe the work the illegals are doing? Or is it maybe many of the taxi drivers are illegal and using someone else’s license? and that why when they have an accident with you they never show up to court.
‘Twas a Wednesday (May 13, 1998).
From http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E5D61130F935A25756C0A96E958260
Can the Taxi Drivers Stay on Strike, Please?; Yuppies on the Bus
To the Editor:
Kudos to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for his role in the taxi strike (news article, May 14). Never have I spent a more serene day in Manhattan. No seas of yellow clogging the avenues, no angry cabdrivers, no horn-blaring and no maimed pedestrians. Equally amazing was seeing yuppies timidly finding their way to underground transit. Perhaps the Mayor can rid the city of excess taxis; that would be a quality-of-life improvement.
ROGER RATHMAN
Brooklyn, May 14, 1998
Or “Bucolic for a day”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E5D61130F935A25756C0A96E958260
To the Editor:
Re ‘’Hailing Danger’’ (news article, May 15): On the day of the taxi strike, I reveled in the relative peace on the streets of New York City. Not since the paralyzing snowfall of several years ago has the city seemed so livable. At 9:10 A.M., Seventh Avenue in front of Pennsylvania Station was positively bucolic without the characteristic crush of yellow cabs. During the three-block walk from the subway to my office, I heard not one car horn.
Far from proving how indispensable they are, the yellow-taxi drivers demonstrated how much they reduce the city’s quality of life. Is there any way the strike could be extended indefinitely?
KENNETH M. COUGHLIN
New York, May 15, 1998