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Article: Bloomberg Officials Seek a Bright Side on Congestion Pricing Failure.(Conference notes)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2008
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At a conference today organized last week the Regional Planning Association, which describes itself as a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the NY/NJ/CT metropolitan region, one topic dominated the discussion: the failure of congestion pricing.
Albany was the main focus of the conference participants' ire.
An exasperated Edward Skyler, the deputy mayor for operations, said, "The smallest things require approval from the state. For example, if we want to put traffic cameras up, we can't do that unless we get approval from Albany."
Echoing a point made publicly by Mayor Bloomberg, Skyler said that the congestion pricing setback ...