Nearly three-quarters of the visitors to the Straphanger's Campaign web site support congestion pricing, the transit advocates said today in a press release. It's not surprising on some levels, I guess, since the people who probably visit www.straphangers.org are a pretty self-selecting group of folks who are most likely themselves advocates of mass transit or at least frequent riders of trains and buses.
But when they posed the question:
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed that New York City adopt a system of 'congestion pricing.' Drivers would have to pay a charge to come into Manhattan's Central Business District during weekday rush hours. The mayor says these charges will reduce traffic congestion and help pay for transit repairs. There would be a three-year pilot project to see how the program works. What do you think?"
Some 73.9% of the 662 visitors to the site said they would agree.
Venerable readers of the Tracker, what say you?
-- Michael Clancy
