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Thursday, August 17, 2006

UPDATED: Breaking news from Streetsblog

Bloomberg

I look forward reading it tonight.

UPDATE

Streetsblog

New York Observer

From the Observer:

But the document is already four months overdue, and now has no deadline, delayed both by the complexity of the task and by the changing personnel in the upper echelons of the Mayor’s office, according to individuals close to the process. And when it is completed, it will likely be up to a new administration to determine whether the plan becomes one of Mr. Bloomberg’s most significant legacies, or just a dusty old PDF file that dies when the Mayor leaves office three and a half years from now....
 
Traffic, [Paul White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives] said, is a major concern of the plan, and the administration is expected to introduce the idea of congestion pricing, a controversial strategy employed in London that charges cars to travel into the center of town.
 
“They are curious about how to make it work politically,” Mr. White said. “I think from a rational public-policy point of view, the Mayor’s people are very much on board with this, but, particularly with congestion pricing, the politics are very complicated because you need support from the Brooklyn and Queens City Council delegations.”

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