We partnered with Mastercard to look at how pedestrianizing 11 blocks of 5th Avenue last holiday season impacted the local economy. Guess what? It drove an estimated $3M in additional spending with merchants seeing a 6.6% increase in sales.
Ya-Ting Liu
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Ya-Ting Liu
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Joined April 2011
- Public transit is the lifeblood of NYC and traffic is choking our city streets. Congestion pricing is the only policy that can tackle both in an equitable and comprehensive way. The general fund, PMT, existing taxes that go into MTA are unsustainable, not enough, or regressive.
- YES PLEASE >>>>“In Paris, freight trucks enter the city at night and deliver packages to smaller warehouses near homes. In the morning, bikes and electric vans haul them to people’s doorsteps.”
- Disappearance of car traffic has also laid bare the gross inequality of mobility in cities. Somehow cars are the only ones who can move with abandon while everyone else is asked to sacrifice safety, convenience, time. Returning to this will be an epic policy failure of cities.
- A lovely reminder that with vision and intention, NYC can transform the built environment into something wonderful.
- It’s never too early to teach kids about the benefits of congestion pricing...
- My first job in nyc policy and advocacy was on a campaign to get council and Albany approval for congestion pricing. The year was 2007 and Mayor Bloomberg announced the big idea as part of PlaNYC2030. 17yrs later it’s finally in effect! Congrats to all who made today possible!Congestion Relief Zone tolling is now in effect. Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info
- talking to other parents at school drop off about why nyc needs congestion pricing
- Climate change is here. We are still arguing about parking…How’s your summer going? ⛈
00:00 - 🚨mad max fluffy road (aka corgi in a backpack) has met his competition
- “I don’t want to say no one should drive those vehicles.” Why not? Isn’t this exactly what we should be saying as a city?
- “Anyone who pretends that eliminating tailpipe emissions means we can ignore all the other negative externalities that come with more auto-mobility is selling you snake oil.”
