CALL TO ACTION : Join Us And Speak Up on Congestion Pricing !

The Traffic Congestion Commission is holding hearings to take public comments in account for its recommendation
October 25, 2007, 6:00pm
Hunter College Kaye Theater, East 68th Street btw Park & Lexington
Subway 4, 5, 6 Stop @68th Street
Free buses leave from Penn South and Manhattan Plaza at 5:15**

**if you’re interested in a seat, please call Melanie at Speaker Quinn’s district office: 212-564-7757 x104.

Congestion Pricing will help Clinton Hell’s Kitchen

to reduce the number of individual cars ,
to free up pedestrian bicylce and bus space
to improve air quality and reduce our high level of asthma ( the second highest in Manhattan after Harlem according to the Department of Health)
to rebalance Lincoln Tunnel, Holland Tunnel and Verrazano bridge’s truck traffic
to enforce gridlock laws
to support our vision of 9th Avenue

Congestion Pricing is the only way to

obtain immediately $ 345 Million in Feederal fuding for transit Improvements
to raise $ 30 Billion in transportation Capital funding

Congestion pricing is democratic

only 6% of the population commutes by car and 80% of those do so by choice and not by necessity .
the average revenue of a car commuter is about 25% higher than a bus commuter .

More on Congestion Pricing

CB4 Resolution on Congestion Pricing