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Urban Partnerships Announcement News

National

• Minnesota to do second toll express lanes (Toll Road News, 12/9/07)

• Environmental Group Praises Bush Administration for Over $800 Million Transportation Grants for Miami, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, Seattle (Environmental Defense, 8/14/07)
• Tolls, Congestion Pricing Face Drivers in Five U.S. Cities (Environmental News Service, 8/15/07)
• Cities to Split $1.1 Billion For Traffic Proposals (Wall Street Journal, 8/14/07)

Miami

• New Fed Funds Will Be Used For Toll Lanes On I-95 (CBS4, 8/15/07)
• Minnesota awarded $1.33.3 million to battle traffic congestion along I-35W (Star New, 8/15/07)
• Feds announce $133 million transportation grant for Twin Cities (Star Tribune, 8/14/07)
• Minnesota Gets $133.3 Million to Battle Road Congestion (Pioneer Press, 8/14/07)

New York City

• New York to Get U.S. Traffic Aid, but With Catch (NYTimes, 8/15/07)
• FEDS' TRAFFIC $IGNAL D.C. GREEN-LIGHTS $354.5M FOR CITY (New York Post, 8/15/07)
• Feds put toll plan in gear (New York Daily News, 8/15/07)
• Not So Fast, Silver Says, After City Gets $354.5M To Fight Congestion (New York Sun, 8/15/07)
• Federal Transit Aid to NYC Contingent on Action (WNYC, 8/15/07)
• NYC gets federal backing for new $8-per-car fee (Reuters, 8/14/07)
• Feds Join NYC Traffic Fight (US News and World Report, 8/14/07)
• New York gets $354 million for traffic plan (New York Business, 8/14/07)

San Francisco

• Will drivers pay to fix SF's Doyle Drive? Feds to help with repairs, but would exact a price (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/15/07)
• Federal funds lend a hand to S.F.'s ailing Doyle Drive (The Washington Examiner, 8/15/07)
• Feds aim $159 million at S.F. traffic jam (San Francisco Business Times, 8/14/07)
• Feds Give Bay Area Millions To Fight Traffic Congestion (NBC-TV, San Francisco, 8/14/07)

Seattle

• Gripe all you want, then take the cash (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/16/07)

• Federal grant requires tolls on 520 45 new buses part of deal aimed at improving commute (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/15/07)

• Feds offer $139M if state imposes 520 bridge toll (Seattle Times, 8/15/07)

Denver

• Other cities' traffic plans curb metro Denver's plea for relief (Rock Mountain News, 8/15/07)
• U.S. 36 project turned down (Denver Post, 8/14/07)
• U.S. 36 project loses funding bid (Boulder County Business Report, 8/14/07)
• Denver nixed for national 'de-congestion' grant (KUSA-TV, 8/14/07)

Congestion Pricing

• Boom in green cars could 'damage' London Congestion-charge (The Evening Standard, 11/12/07)
• WA proposes $9 maximum toll for highway experiment (The Associated Press, 12/14/07)
• London to hike congestion tax (Down to Earth, 12/10/07)
• British cities shun London's wasteful car tax The Sunday Times, 12/9/07)
• Reports Say Bloomberg's Congestion Pricing Plan To Undergo Makeover (NY1, 12/4/07)
• NZ congestion charge plan back on road (New Zealand Herald, 12/4/07)
• Hi-tech helps avoid congestion charge penalty (BBC, 11/26/07)
• Shanghai mulls traffic 'congestion fee' (The Age, 11/26/07)
• Congestion pricing finally coming to the Tappan Zee Bridge? (Times Herald-Record, 11/14/07)
• Dail to consider congestion charge for Dublin, Ireland (The Post.ie, 11/11/07)
• London's Congestion Fee Begets Pinched Plates (Wall Street Journal, 11/2/07)
• Road charging main pillar of UK transport plans (The Telegraph, 10/30/07)
• London loves it, but will S.F.? (S.F. Examiner, 10/29/07)
• Capita loses contract for London congestion charge to IBM (The Telegraph, 10/26/07)
• Call for Sydney congestion tax (The Sydney Morning Herald, 10/26/07)
• London Mayor's Plans Will Not Reduce Congestion or CO2, says Industry Study (The Auto Channel, 10/22/07)
• Labour to scrap national road pricing plans (The Daily Telegraph, 10/15/07)
• Calls for AU city car congestion tax (News.com.AU, 10/8/07)
• Monaco's congestion plans (Monsters and Critics, 10/5/07)
• Belfast congestion charges mooted (BBC, 9/28/07)
• Brisbane, AU congestion charge considered (ABC News, 9/25/07)
• S.F. studying congestion pricing to ease traffic, promote transit (San Francisco Chronicle, 9/19/07)
• Congestion pricing approved for Dulles Greenway in Virginia (Land Line Magazine, 9/13/07)
• Budapest mayor calls for traffic congestion charge (Hungary Around the Clock, 9/17/07)
• Drivers may pay premium to take MA Pike in rush hour (Gatehouse News Service, 9/9/07)
• Open the road to new ideas for cutting traffic (St. Petersburg Times, 9/4/07)
• Congestion charge to cut rush-hour traffic (The Norway Post, 8/15/07)
• More Backlash Over D.C. Congestion Tax (WTOP News, 8/8/2007)
• London drivers to face £25 a day tax (The Times (UK), 8/5/2007)
• Call for congestion charge for Dublin (The Sunday Business Post (Ireland), 8/5/2007)
• New technology could end misery of flat congestion charges (Edie News Centre, 8/2/2007)
• Swedish congestion charge increased public transport use (The Local, 7/31/2007)
• Manchester votes for congestion charging plan (The Times, 7/27/07)
• Nanjing poised to adopt congestion fees Miao Xiaojuan, China Daily, July 13, 2007
• London Releases Its Fifth Annual Congestion Pricing Study Streetsblog, July 11, 2007
• London to Swap Congestion-Charge Cameras for Electronic Sensors Brian Lysaght, Bloomberg, July 11, 2007
• Fla. Roads Have DOT Seeing Red; Toll roads and foreign investors may ease future traffic congestion By Lloyd Dunkelberger, Ledger (Tallahassee, FL), July 8, 2007
• London Bridge is not falling after congestion plan (The Villager, 5/30/2007
• Congested cities compete to pioneer pay-per-mile trials (The Times, 5/22/2007)
• Livingstone: Businesses Led on Congestion Charge (StreetsBlog, 5/16/2007)

NYC Congestion Pricing

• NYC Indep. Budget Office reports congestion pricing to impact mostly affluent, non-NYers (New York Times, 12/11/07)
• Applying a 'Reality Test' on NYC Congestion Pricing Alternatives (New York Times, 12/5/07)
• Mayor Bloomberg criticizes MTA again for congestion plan delay (New York Daily News, 12/5/07)
• Congestion Pricing May Lead To Big NYC Parking Problem (WCBS-New York City, 12/5/07)
• Study Gives Alternatives to NYC Plan for Congestion (New York Times, 10/12/07)
• NYC congestion group struggles over proposed fare hike (Newsday, 9/26/07)
• Congestion plan painful for N.J. (The Record, 9/2/07)
• Editorial: Congestion pricing to be implemented in areas of New York City (Ventura County Star, 8/20/07)
• A Divided Council Confronts Congestion Pricing Courtney Gross, Gotham Gazette, 8/6/2007
• NY Governor Signs Bill to Put Congestion Pricing Plan on Track NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, NY Times, July 27, 2007
• Fed rules apply to NYC congestion plan Newsday, 7/21/2007
• Crunch Time for Congestion Pricing Editorial, New York Times, July 9, 2007
• Editorial: Get Moving on Traffic Relief (The New York Times, 5/25/2007)
• Making a Case for Congestion Pricing (The New York Times, 5/18/2007)
• Former President Bill Clinton supports New York mayor's congestion pricing (The Associated Press, 5/16/2007)
• Poll Suggests Manhattan Driving Is Mostly Optional (The New York Times, 5/3/2007)
• Bloomberg Draws a Blueprint for a Greener City (New York Times, 4/23/2007)