Article: MAYOR BLOOMBERG CALLS ON ALBANY, CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVE CONGESTION PRICING PLAN IN SPEECH AT CRAIN'S BREAKFAST FORUM

The office of the New York City Mayor issued the following statement:

"Thank you, Kathy and good morning everyone. Secretary Peters: It's always a pleasure to welcome you to New York. Thanks for joining us.

"I hope everyone had a smooth trip here today. If you ran into some traffic - well, just keep in mind that there are about two million other people trying to get into Manhattan's Central Business District today, most during what, for some mysterious reason, we call 'rush hour.' It's hard to see why we use that term. We should call it the 'slow hour' - or some days, the 'no hour.'

"Today people who travel to jobs in Manhattan from the other four boroughs endure the nation's longest ...

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