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Bloomberg: Traffic Fee Should've Been Up for Vote
by Amy Eddings
NEW YORK, NY April 08, 2008 —The day after the state assembly refused to take up congestion pricing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that the proposal would have passed had it been put to a vote. After a speech in Washington on the environment, he explained that since every bill that gets to the floor is approved by the majority, that this one would have also.
BLOOMBERG: There's never been in the last 20 or 30 years a bill that got to the Assembly floor that wasn't over-approved. So, it's not really realistic to say if it came to the vote, it was questionable the result. The results would have been there, it would have been passed.
REPORTER: Assembly speaker Shelly Silver said yesterday that he was not bringing it to a vote because not enough members supported it.
The defeat of Bloomberg's proposal means that New York forfeits a $354 million grant from the federal government, as well as about half a billion dollars annually for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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