Silence really is golden — and homeowners are willing to pay more for it. Specifically, when traffic noise fades, home values tend to creep up. A new academic study by the National Bureau of Academic Research suggests that the simple act of quieting a highway can deliver an outsized payoff for nearby homeowners. A recent … Read more
The MTA is already trumpeting the success of its controversial congestion pricing plan, which it says has sliced travel times and cut the number of cars on the road — although data about revenue and air quality is still forthcoming. Juliette Michaelson, the agency’s deputy chief of policy and external relations, said at the MTA … Read more
The forgotten borough is getting smoked out! New York’s controversial plan to enforce a $15 toll to drive on some of Manhattan’s busiest streets will just favor Midtown’s wealthy elite — and increase pollution in Staten Island’s minority neighborhoods, local pols claimed Thursday. “If someone wanted to deliberately create a plan with the goals that … Read more
The Issue: The mounting resistance against congestion pricing amid plans for a mid-June rollout. The Post is right (“Wrong Turn,” Steve Cuozzo, PostOpinion, Mar. 3). It was former Mayor Michael Bloomberg who decided that we needed fewer drivers. He jacked up fines, installed red-light and speeding cameras and created miles of bus-only and bike lanes. … Read more
Here we go again. First Mayor Adams tried (and failed) to ship migrants to upstate counties following his defiant declaration, “New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration.” Now his city’s public-transit system wants to balance its books on the backs of bedroom communities like my own Cornwall-on-Hudson via what it … Read more
Claims, trains and automobiles! New York City’s most powerful teachers’ union has teamed up with Staten Island’s Republican borough president to sue to stop the MTA’s controversial congestion pricing plan. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), has asked the court to halt the implementation of the soon-to-be-launched plan, which would charge drivers … Read more
Climate hypocrisyThose attending the United Nations General Assembly could lead by example when it comes to global warming and climate change (“To Fix the UN Traffic Nightmare,” Editorial, Sept. 21). Heads of state, ambassadors, military attachés and security personnel can give up limousines taking them to and from their embassy, hotel or residence to the … Read more