Boundaries are a tricky business in New York City, as anyone drawing a neighborhood map or browsing for an apartment on Craigslist will tell you. The Upper East Side turns into East Harlem at 96th Street, sure. And SoHo is south of Houston, that’s an easy one.
But where is Midtown? And, even more vexing for planners considering the mayor’s proposed congestion pricing plan, where is the city’s central business district? And how should the boundaries of the toll zone that drivers have to pay to enter on weekdays correspond to the (possibly undefined) boundaries of those amorphous regions? These are the kind of questions City Hall’s planners wrestled with before setting the zone’s northern boundary at 86th Street –- though that designation is far from final.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan got a boost today from the governor and the United States secretary of transportation, who announced that New York City was one of nine finalists for a share of $1.1 billion in federal money intended to fight traffic in major urban areas.
http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/congestionpricing/index.htm
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