Charles Komanoff
Recent Posts
How to Counter the Latest Congestion Pricing Objections
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Reasonable people raise objections to congestion pricing. But they can be easily addressed.
KOMANOFF: Want Fair Taxi Congestion Surcharges? Embed Them Within Congestion Tolling
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A nationally respected expert says a City Council taxi bill is a springboard for a better congestion-pricing plan.
Congestion Pricing Gets Cuomo Push
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The governor's congestion pricing plan is a win-win-win.
Op-Ed: Varick Street Crossing Guards Are Telling a Tale of Congestion Pricing
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The Times story on "adult crossing guards" reveals, though inadvertently, how our politicians have failed us.
Memo To Council Member Barry Grodenchik: Find a New Congestion Pricing Guru
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The Queens lawmaker foolishly said he agreed with former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky's flawed argument that fees on drivers are "elitist."
Op-Ed: Postpone the Taxi Congestion Surcharge
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A national expert says the added fee on cabbies is premature before full congestion pricing.
To Punish Saudi Regime for Killing Jamal Khashoggi, Institute a Carbon Tax
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This is more than just payback for the regime that murdered Jamal Khashoggi. It's good public policy.
Leave It to Lyft? Trust Uber? (But Who’s Gonna Watch the FHV Surcharges?)
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Streetsblog's resident taxi maven highlights a huge flaw in the city and state's plan to charge surcharges on yellows, Ubers, black cars and green cars that enter Manhattan below 96th St.
No Uber-Lyft Cap Needed Because New York Can Price Its Way Out of Congestion and Despair
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Congestion pricing is a much better plan than capping Uber and Lyft, which provide a valuable service outside of Manhattan.
How Higher Wages for Uber Drivers Could Cut Traffic
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It's up to Mayor de Blasio to follow through on a powerful policy proposal to change the for-hire vehicle industry for the better.
Eight Reasons Why Congestion Pricing Goes Great With the Fast Forward Plan to Fix NYC Transit
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Andy Byford's Fast Forward NYC plan to modernize subways and buses has set the stage for congestion pricing in the 2019 Albany session.
Albany Didn’t Even Get the Taxi Fees Right
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By omitting a cordon toll and charging taxis and Ubers per trip instead of per minute, Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders bungled their chance to reduce New York's most punishing traffic congestion.