Liveable Streets

Congestion Pricing

At its Annual Meeting on June 7, 2007, the Park Slope Civic Council voted to approve, with conditions, Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed Congestion Pricing Plan as follows:

The Park Slope Civic Council has carefully reviewed the facts, the pros and cons, and strongly supports Congestion Pricing, provided that it includes, but is not limited to, such components as parking management (Resident Parking Permits) and immediate transit investments (subway station and signal improvements; increased subway and bus service).

Ken Freeman, President of the Park Slope Civic Council, said, “Congestion pricing represents an opportunity to provide a new revenue source to improve mass transit in our neighborhood and citywide. The population growth that Park Slope–indeed, all of Brooklyn–is experiencing, and the resulting traffic congestion, can be addressed only by making mass transit a more attractive option for commuters.” Michael Cairl, Chair of the Civic Council’s Livable Streets Committee, echoed a sentiment of many members when he said after the Civic Council’s vote, “Our neighborhood will become even more of a ‘park-and-ride’ site than it already is unless there are immediate mass transit improvements such as those outlined in PlaNYC, as well as Muni-Meters and Residential Permit Parking.”