http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/comment-page-1/#comment-1282 StreetsBlog » Bloomberg on Oil Dependence: Punditry or Policy? Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:23:20 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/#comment-1282 [...] With the stroke of a pen, the Mayor could put in place a number transportation and land use policies that would significantly reduce New York City's automobile dependence and petroleum consumption. And with some more serious political arm-twisting, Bloomberg could probably implement far-reaching traffic-reduction measures similar to what is being tried in London and Paris. Yet, New York City has no long-term transportation vision or stategy. Aside from highly localized projects in places like Staten Island and Downtown Brooklyn, Mayor Bloomberg's Department of Transportation is doing little to address the city's growing traffic congestion problem. [...] [...] With the stroke of a pen, the Mayor could put in place a number transportation and land use policies that would significantly reduce New York City’s automobile dependence and petroleum consumption. And with some more serious political arm-twisting, Bloomberg could probably implement far-reaching traffic-reduction measures similar to what is being tried in London and Paris. Yet, New York City has no long-term transportation vision or stategy. Aside from highly localized projects in places like Staten Island and Downtown Brooklyn, Mayor Bloomberg’s Department of Transportation is doing little to address the city’s growing traffic congestion problem. [...]

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/comment-page-1/#comment-957 Mattattack Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:04:48 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/#comment-957 Our only chance of improving our streets through congestion traffic pricing is Mayor Bloomberg. His legacy is already enormous and we need to ask him if he can leave us with this amazingly effective system of traffic control Our only chance of improving our streets through congestion traffic pricing is Mayor Bloomberg. His legacy is already enormous and we need to ask him if he can leave us with this amazingly effective system of traffic control

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/comment-page-1/#comment-663 futurebird Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:22:18 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/#comment-663 I can't wait till we do something like this in NYC. I can’t wait till we do something like this in NYC.

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/comment-page-1/#comment-629 Sproule Love Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:15:44 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/#comment-629 Great to see this bulletin board up and running! As a vociferous bicycle advocate, I'm all for any measure that makes the city safer, quieter or cleaner: congestion pricing, curbed bike lanes, kicking cars out of the parks...heck, kicking cars out of midtown. As a student of economics, I'm all for congestion pricing that somehow compensates for the regressivity of transportation taxes. With the recent evidence from London, this is such a no-brainer for New York. But it's sad to say that if a crisis like 9/11 can't produce any lasting positive change of perspective regarding how we run our city (why didn't we keep those car pool rules?), I doubt that anything will. I hate to sound pessimistic...can anyone turn me around on this? Great to see this bulletin board up and running! As a vociferous bicycle advocate, I’m all for any measure that makes the city safer, quieter or cleaner: congestion pricing, curbed bike lanes, kicking cars out of the parks…heck, kicking cars out of midtown. As a student of economics, I’m all for congestion pricing that somehow compensates for the regressivity of transportation taxes. With the recent evidence from London, this is such a no-brainer for New York. But it’s sad to say that if a crisis like 9/11 can’t produce any lasting positive change of perspective regarding how we run our city (why didn’t we keep those car pool rules?), I doubt that anything will. I hate to sound pessimistic…can anyone turn me around on this?

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/comment-page-1/#comment-616 Jon Orcutt Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:40:22 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/07/18/london-mayor-wants-45-fee-from-suv-polluters/#comment-616 So what do we adopt as our equivalent - "Jersey Tractors" ? So what do we adopt as our equivalent – “Jersey Tractors” ?

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