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[Dave Snyder]

Hi folks,

This from a friend of mine, the Campaigns Director for Transportation 
Alternatives in New York. She and I talked about congestion pricing 
versus parking charges as a way to reduce driving into downtown.

Dave

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>Dave,
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>I'm attaching a fairly minimalist presentation by Hermann 
>Knoflacher.  He gave it at the recent Urban Age conference here in 
>New York City.  As I mentioned on the phone, he believes that 
>parking is the key to rebalancing our streets.  The presentation 
>doesn't get into that much, but it does have a great juxtaposition 
>of on- and off-street parking prices.  I'm including some links that 
>have more detailed information on his ideas.  There are probably 
>better ones, but they're in German.
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>I actually think that congestion pricing in the London/Singapore 
>sense is more politically palatable than parking changes.  Parking 
>is the political third rail here in New York, even though most 
>people don't own or use cars.  One of the Democratic mayoral 
>hopefuls just got major extended positive press coverage from a 
>campaign to eliminate "Pay to Pray," meaning having to feed meters 
>in front of churches on Sundays.  And local elected officials have 
>seized on this like manna from heaven.  It's disgusting.  So as much 
>as congestion pricing will be hard to sell, I think that it may 
>actually be easier here.  I have no idea what will work in San 
>Francisco, though given the stories I hear about people parking on 
>the sidewalk, it will probably also be difficult.  Our line here 
>these days is that winning any of this stuff is a marketing/PR 
>problem, and that anything that's studied should also have an 
>intense PR component (i.e., focus groups, polling, coordinated media 
>outreach).  Hopefully that's already obvious to the west coast.
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><http://afo.sandelman.ca/afz/issue15.html>http://afo.sandelman.ca/afz/issue15.html 
>Scroll down to "Parking: The key to Solving Traffic Problems (and 
>not only in towns)"
>http://www.ivv.tuwien.ac.at/publications/online/ParkingCongressLondon.pdf
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>Also, a great article on BRT ran today in the local NY Times. 
> Thought you'd be interested since it could be part of the San 
>Francisco gridlock relief package: 
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/nyregion/30rapidbus.html?
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>Thanks for calling.  Let's keep in touch.
>
>Best,
>Kit
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>Kit Hodge
>Campaigns Director
>Transportation Alternatives
>115 W. 30th Street, #1207
>New York, NY 10001
>212-629-8080
>212-629-8334 fax
>Transalt.org
>Crashstat.org
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>New York City's Advocates for Walking, Bicycling and Sensible Transportation
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