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October 20, 2007
Could Congestion Pricing Turn Brooklyn Into `Park and Ride’?
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Charles Maldonado
Brooklyn could be turned into a “park and ride community” by Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to institute congestion pricing for commuters entering Manhattan, said Tom Agnotti, Hunter College professor of urban planning and a lifelong Brooklyn resident.
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In his talk, he also sounded the alarm about new development that, he said, would drive real estate prices and rents up, out of range of middle-class and working-class residents.
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Angotti, a well-known critic of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development and one of the chief designers of the alternative Unity Plan for the site, offered it as an example of how New York is not dealing with congestion the way it should.“The Atlantic Yards has been touted as a transit-friendly development. Then why are they building 3,600 parking spaces?”
Posted by amy at October 20, 2007 10:51 AM