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CityViews: Cynthia Nixon on the Leadership New York City’s Subways Need
Cynthia Nixon |
‘If the subway dies, so does the city of New York. We need bold leadership and immediate action from our next governor.’
‘If the subway dies, so does the city of New York. We need bold leadership and immediate action from our next governor.’
They don’t sit in traffic. They don’t depend solely on the MTA to get them to work or home. But the people who commute on two wheels have plenty of reason to back a policy of charging cars to use the streets that many drivers think they own.
The chief strategist behind the eight-year effort to get congestion pricing back on the table, Alex Mathiessen, joins City Limits and Gotham Gazette to discuss how we got here, what comes next and what risks lie along the way.
During the 2017 campaign, the candidates for mayor have each highlighted a few transportation issues. Advocates say a much longer list of transit challenges and decisions will confront whoever is in City Hall come January 1.
‘The reality is that both the millionaire’s tax and the congestion pricing proposal have merit—but the mayor’s specious argument that congestion pricing is regressive does not.’