New York City introduced congestion pricing in January 2025. The original goal, set in 2020 through a Cornell-City College of New York collaboration, calculated a range of different toll prices and aligned each pricing pricing level with anticipated congestion reductions, environmental gains, and health benefits. How well has the City … [continued]
It took years, but New York City (NYC) finally implemented congestion pricing on January 5, 2025. (That’s 22 years after London first implemented it.) Aimed at cutting pollution in the city, would it work? Yes, it would! Paul Day of Air Quality News shares that a Cornell University study has … [continued]
The US offshore wind industry is still showing signs of life with the arrival of Thliaf, a gigantic semi-submersible crane vessel that is gearing up to help build the 810-megawatt Empire Wind project off the coast of Long Island.
Work has restarted on New York State’s Empire Wind offshore wind project while the high profile Constitution gas pipeline proposal remains mothballed, for now.
Quick question: What does the Empire Wind offshore wind project have in common with the Penn Station Reconstruction Project? Wrong answers only.
Who would have thought that New York’s congestion pricing plan would raise $48.6 million in tolls during its first month? Clearly not President Donald J. Trump, who insists that the toll plan hurts local business. Trump has ordered the Department of Transportation to revoke New York’s federal congestion pricing authorization. … [continued]
There’s no getting around it: New York City traffic is bad. At peak hours of the day, traffic is at a virtual standstill in many areas, and with EVs still only a small percentage of overall traffic, air quality and traffic noise can be terrible. In various parts of the … [continued]
If cities want to clean up their air and get people using healthier, more climate-friendly modes of transport, London has demonstrated a solution that genuinely works. Its new-ish “Ultra Low Emissions Zone,” which was established on April 8, 2019, has led to major shifts in transportation patterns. That said, there are also some downsides.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia claim per per use of roads is best way to reduce urban congestion and pollution.
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