Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz

Panel: NYC Electeds Need to Get Serious About Funding Infrastructure

By Stephen Miller | Apr 23, 2014 | 4 Comments

This morning, the Association for a Better New York, a business group, hosted a discussion on the city’s infrastructure. The focus was squarely on transportation, and the message wasn’t pretty. Panelists warned of dire consequences if elected officials don’t act on the precarious state of transportation funding. Calling himself “the ghost of infrastructure past,” former traffic commissioner […]

Congestion Pricing Foes Sit Down at the Table With Fair Toll Advocates

By Stephen Miller | Mar 21, 2014 | 133 Comments

After years of meetings and tweaks, the Move NY fair toll campaign launched this morning with a simple message: With AAA and trucking interests at the table beside transit advocates, reforming New York’s broken toll system actually has a shot. It’s a different beast than the congestion pricing plan that Mayor Bloomberg pushed for six years […]

Tony Avella and David Weprin Launch Preemptive Attack on NYC Toll Reform

By Stephen Miller | Dec 13, 2013 | 28 Comments

Remember these guys? This morning, State Senator Tony Avella and Assembly Member David Weprin stood at traffic-choked Queensboro Plaza to say they don’t care if the Move NY toll reform plan reduces tolls on bridges near their eastern Queens districts — they refuse to support any proposal that adds tolls to East River crossings. In a […]

This Weekend, NYC’s Traffic Dysfunction Gets Worse

By Ben Fried | Feb 28, 2013 | 8 Comments

In case you missed it, Crain’s ran a good piece today wherein “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz explained one of the less-publicized effects of the MTA fare and toll hikes slated to take effect this weekend. NYC’s already-dysfunctional road pricing system is about to make even less sense. With tolls on the MTA’s East River crossings going […]

Instead of More Fare Hikes, How About Bridge Tolls That Make Sense?

By Ben Fried | Oct 15, 2012 | 16 Comments

Since the beginning of 2008 — right around the time that Albany legislators failed to enact congestion pricing — NYC subway and bus fares have been hiked three times. Now the fourth fare hike in five years is on the horizon, and with Albany lawmakers sitting on their hands as MTA revenues fail to keep […]

Why Gridlock Sam’s Traffic Plan Could Go the Distance

By Charles Komanoff | May 3, 2012 | 16 Comments

Saturday will mark two months of non-stop acclaim for Gridlock Sam’s traffic-pricing plan. The accolades kicked off on March 5 with a gushing op-ed, “Meet Sam Schwartz,” by New York Times emeritus editor Bill Keller, and they haven’t let up. The Wall Street Journal, Transportation Nation, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Channel 13, and Crain’s New […]

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