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Pro-congestion pricing mailings, a rally, a report and a presser recently touted the mayor's congestion pricing plan as the best solution to curb pollution and traffic. Here comes the opposition: The Queens Civic Congress, a grouping of Queens civic and community organizations, blasted the mailing last Friday. About 350,000 postcards featuring a girl using an asthma pump told readers to push legislators to pass congestion pricing. The civic group's president said in a written statement: "The Congestion Tax does not in any way target traffic in the New York City
neighborhoods where youngsters suffer from asthma." Tomorrow, Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) is holding a press conference releasing "the first thorough, independent, and fair-minded review of the congestion pricing proposal" that will raise questions toward the mayor's plan. More to come...