Rohit Aggarwala

Officials Make the Case for Congestion Pricing to Council

It’s a pretty crowded room upstairs in the City Council chambers, where testimony about congestion pricing is being given by city Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and the Director of Long-term Planning and Sustainability, Rohit Aggarwala.

In one exchange, Aggarwala told City Councilman Robert Jackson, “[Y]ou don’t have to get 20 percent of the people off the road to have 20 percent reduction in traffic.” She continued, “Sometimes, if you take one or two cars off, it takes a crowded, congested condition and it turns it into traffic that can flow.”  read more »

More Congestion Pricing on TV

For those of you who haven't yet had your fill of congestion pricing, don't worry.

The most outspoken critic of the plan, Assemblyman Richard Brodsky of Westchester, will debate one of its architects, Rohit Aggarwala, the director of the city's office of long-term planning and sustainability.

It'll take place tonight on Inside City Hall, which airs at 7 p.m.

What will they say?