{"id":603,"date":"2009-05-19T20:05:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/?p=603"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:07:39","slug":"road-to-the-future-analysis-congestion-pricing-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/reports\/by-geography\/international\/road-to-the-future-analysis-congestion-pricing-in-new-york-city\/603\/","title":{"rendered":"[REPORT] Who killed congestion pricing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was made plain on April 7, 2008, by the Democratic leader of the New York state Assembly, Sheldon Silver, that <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/07\/congestion-pricing-plan-is-dead-assembly-speaker-says\/?hp\">the congestion pricing proposal in New York City<\/a> would not even come to a vote in the state capitol in Albany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/05\/052-nyc-long-street355x252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/05\/052-nyc-long-street355x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <em>Traffic in New York City<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just a year earlier, on Earth Day, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg first proposed the congestion pricing plan as a way to both reduce traffic in Manhattan&#8217;s streets and increase funds for mass transit throughout the City\u2019s five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congestion Pricing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ops.fhwa.dot.gov\/publications\/congestionpricing\/index.htm\">Congestion pricing<\/a>, in design, puts an added fee on driving in a designated zone within a city, most often in overcrowded and car-filled areas. It is a tax on driving \u2013 to discourage driving and, at the same time, fund alternatives to driving. As a result, the \u2018tax\u2019 can be taken two ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to car emissions, driving both adversely affects the environment and the health of communities. Consequently, it should be taxed similar to increased taxes on tobacco and liquor \u2013 people will drive less and mass transit will have better investment.<\/li>\n<li>Driving may be harmful, but it is still not a vice like tobacco or liquor. Rather, driving is a need and a right. The cost is already high, and it is taxed enough. And, simply, the alternatives to driving are not yet an adequate substitute.\n<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/05\/london-congestion-pricing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/05\/london-congestion-pricing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><em>Congestion Pricing in London<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some major cities around the world, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/reports\/global-perspectives\/video-singapore-curbs-traffic-with-automatic-tolls\/217\/\">Singapore<\/a>, London and Stockholm, have been able to remedy this divide and implement congestion pricing plans. Still, though cities in America have proposed it, nowhere in the country has congestion pricing been realized. Since its failure in New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/09\/19\/MNKJS8LM4.DTL\">San Francisco is now considering a similar plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New York City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/html\/home\/home.shtml\">PlaNYC<\/a> initiative put forward by Mayor Bloomberg to make New York a greener city as it continues to develop over the next few decades, the initial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/html\/plan\/transportation_congestion-pricing.shtml\">congestion pricing plan<\/a> announced in April 2007 proposed an $8 fee to passenger vehicles entering Manhattan below 86th Street between 6 am and 6 pm on weekdays, and $4 for trips within that zone. By implementing congestion pricing, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/14\/us-will-give-new-york-354-million-for-congestion-pricing\/\">$354 million<\/a> in grants through the federal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upa.dot.gov\/\">Urban Partnership Agreement<\/a> would have been allocated to the City for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2007\/08\/14\/details-of-the-us-dots-3545-million-grant-to-nyc\/\">mass transit improvements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also referred to as the Central Business District, the part of Manhattan below 86th Street on a given day has some 2 million workers from around the region, hundreds of thousands of tourists, and several hundred thousand residents. With these people come cars. And, if it had been implemented, traffic within the congestion pricing zone was projected to decrease 6.3 percent and speeds were projected to increase 7.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in January of the following year, changes were made to the Mayor&#8217;s proposal \u2013 namely, reducing the congestion pricing zone to below 60th Street instead of 86th.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition to the plan came mainly from the outer boroughs and the surrounding suburbs \u2013 where the drivers lived. But, that opposition was minimal. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/x1318.xml?ReleaseID=1162\">March 2008 Quinnipiac poll<\/a>, the overall public support for congestion pricing in the City, if the proceeds were used to improve mass transit, was 60 percent to 30 percent statewide. New York City voters supported the plan, if the money was used for mass transit, 67 percent to 27 percent, while suburban voters supported it 51 percent to 43 percent.<br \/>\nDespite the city and statewide public support, the New York City Council, which votes unanimously on most issues, voted only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklyn-living.com\/brooklynpress.html\">30 to 20<\/a> in support of the plan on March 31, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to apply for the federal Urban Partnership Agreement funds &#8211; $354 million for mass transit \u2013 was on April 7th. In the end, no vote was made by the New York State legislature. Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s plan to implement congestion pricing failed as time ran out. The winners: Politicians from Queens, Brooklyn and New York\u2019s suburbs, who maintained that congestion pricing was a fee on commuters to the benefit of well-to-do Manhattanites.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, representing the Lower East Side of Manhattan, opposed the plan arguing motorists would avoid congestion pricing fees by parking in neighborhoods just outside the zone. As a result, neighborhoods would become \u201cparking lots.\u201d Also, Assemblyman Richard Brodsky of Westchester County issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/nyregion\/city_room\/20070409_BrodskyCongestionReport.pdf\">report on the proposal<\/a>, calling it a &#8220;regressive tax&#8221; on the poor and middle class of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Still, though New York City lost federal funds for its transportation system as a result of the plan\u2019s defeat, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2009\/05\/14\/lahood-nycs-congestion-pricing-money-still-there-for-the-taking\/\">made it clear that the funds are still available<\/a> if the city is ever able to implement congestion pricing in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Singapore Example<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singapore was the first country in the world to implement Electronic Road Pricing (called congestion pricing in the U.S.).<\/p>\n<p>The following is a <em>Worldfocus<\/em>&#8211;<em>Blueprint America<\/em> report on Singapore\u2019s successes in alleviating congestion, while, at the same time, the automatic fees take a toll on Singapore\u2019s commuters.<\/p>\n<p>[sorry, this video no longer available]<\/p>\n<p><em>Worldfocus producers Mary Lockhart and Ara Ayer, and correspondent Daljit Dhaliwal report; this segment was part of a series on infrastructure produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/worldfocus.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/singapore-curbs-traffic-with-automatic-tolls\/2185\/\">Worldfocus<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was made plain on April 7, 2008, by the Democratic leader of the New York state Assembly, Sheldon Silver, that the congestion pricing proposal in New York City would not even come to a vote in the state capitol in Albany. 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