Albany's Indecision: Obstruction or Salvation?
July 17th, 2007
The State Legislature failed to act on Mayor Michael Bloombergs congestion pricing plan and missed a deadline for the city to apply for as much as $500 million federal transportation funding.
The Daily News thinks that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver made a big mistake and should have said “yes” to the plan. “New York today does not have a smart, comprehensive plan to ease the traffic that is choking the city,” the paper writes.
However, the New York Sun thinks that in this case Albanys habit of standing in the way of progress may turn out to be a good thing. “In the case of congestion pricing, the general opposition in the Assembly appears to be a more legitimate political calculation,” the paper writes.
By Mark Berkey-Gerard on July 17, 2007, 7:05 amIn category: Albany, Environment, Transportation | No Comments »


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