congestion pricing

The New York State Assembly has rejected Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed congestion charge for New York city.

After helping to kill the most promising transit proposal New York has seen in years, Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr., son of State Senator Ruben Diaz, had the gall to suggest that Bloomberg's proposed congestion pricing measure was "morally unconscionable." That's right. He described a fee designed to price a scarce resource more intelligently -- and create room to maneuver in Lower and Midtown Manhattan, some of the densest real estate in North America -- in terms usually reserved for the wanton murder of beloved house pets.