Lauren Tsuboyama

This week, we’re highlighting just a few ways congestion relief is transforming our communities in its first 100 days alone.

Want more reasons to support New York’s first-in-the-nation program?

Check the link in our bio for our list of 100 Reasons to Love Congestion Pricing.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

Climate grant recipient to start spending $2B as Trump's EPA tries to claw it back “We have an obligation to fulfill” the grant agreement, Power Forward Communities CEO Tim Mayopoulos said in an interview with POLITICO.

NEW: A group that received a $2B climate grant is spending $539 million — even as EPA tries to claw back those funds.

I spoke w/ Power Forward Communities’ CEO about the plan to use Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund $ for energy efficient housing.

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A heartbreak

Rest in peace Cecile Richards

We are heartbroken to lose the indomitable force that is our former president, Cecile Richards. In her 12 devoted years of service to our org, she brought us to new heights in our health care, education, and advocacy work.

She was the embodiment of “Care, no matter what.”

Traffic into Manhattan drops 7.5% in first week of new toll. That's 43,000 fewer cars a day A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City in its first week of operation.

Traffic is already down 7.5% in the first week of NYC's new #CongestionPricing plan, according to @mta.info.

#CongestionPricing means better streets for everyone — commuters, pedestrians, and even drivers.

Congestion pricing begins in New York, a US first Overcoming opposition, the plan to toll drivers entering Manhattan's central business district went into effect Sunday. Revenues will go to the transit authority's capital investments.

86% of NJ residents entering Manhattan use transit. Transit improvements aren't just for NYC residents — they're for everyone who spends time in the city.

"This thoughtful, expertly designed, decades-in-the-making policy will benefit the entire region."

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Us and @bflanagannj.bsky.social waiting for a congestion pricing decision...

Amazing tour with @alstom.bsky.social seeing where America’s first high speed rail is being built 🚊🚆🚄

This idea that Dems need a new generation of strategists is pundit-brained nonsense.

They have one. There are sharp 25-45 year old staffers all around the country.

Just because cable TV and certain big campaigns keep going back to the same wells doesn't mean there aren't other options out there.

Gov. Murphy’s congestion pricing vendetta harms New Jerseyans | Opinion Transit expert calculates our vast savings. It starts with time.

Komanoff strikes again: Gov. Murphy’s congestion pricing vendetta harms New Jerseyans op-ed in @njdotcomnj.bsky.social www.nj.com/opinion/2024...

Penn Station Operations This is "Penn Station Operations" by Regional Plan Association on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Penn Station is the busiest rail complex in the Western Hemisphere with more than 1,000 daily train movements — 100 of them within just an hour.

RPA and the Build Gateway Now coalition explore the operational techniques needed to get passengers in and out of the station:

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

Bathing in Oil at a Climate Summit? It Leaves a Stain. In Azerbaijan, site of the COP29 climate talks and a petrostate, people aren’t only proud of their oil. They swear by its health benefits and visit resorts to soak in it.

Peak end-stage-capitalism?

Trump wants a big expansion in fossil fuel production. Can he do that? He’ll have key levers he can use, but he faces limitations, too.

Trump may want to “drill, baby, drill" but the actual feasibility of expanding fossil fuel production is a little more complicated than that.

@vox.com breaks it down

Republicans won the presidency, the House, and the Senate.

But it's not enough to have full control of the federal government.

They must, for no reason whatsoever, personally and viciously attack the first trans woman elected to Congress.

Gov. Hochul this morning at Crain’s New York event on the benefits of congestion pricing for riders and New Yorkers

Must we make Republicans the protagonist of every news story? How about the millions of transit riders who stand to benefit? Or the millions of New Yorkers who should see fewer cars clogging the streets?

#CongestionPricing is finally on track to be implemented in NYC!

This wouldn't be possible without the efforts of so many parters. Thanks to @transalt.org, @tstc.bsky.social, @nylcv.bsky.social, @bikenewyork.bsky.social, @reinventalbany.bsky.social for your collaboration!

Continuing this year's devastating series of journalism job cuts, The AP says it is cutting staff by 8 percent.

That comes after Gannett and McClatchy announced plans to stop using AP.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

YouTube video by Zeteo Project 2025: Everything You Need to Know in Two Minutes

Everything you need to know about what’s in Project 2025 - and what’s coming from Trump Term 2 - in two minutes flat.