{"id":658,"date":"2008-04-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-04-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T19:59:00","slug":"albany-gifts-350-million-to-flyover-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Albany Gifts $350 Million to Flyover States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians in New York State&#8217;s legislature have killed congestion pricing for New York City, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/07\/congestion-pricing-plan-is-dead-assembly-speaker-says\/#comment-262757\">reports the NY Times,<\/a> <a HREF=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2008\/04\/07\/breaking_silver.php\">Gothamist<\/a>.  By not acting today, Albany has given up New York City&#8217;s chance at $350 million in federal grants, assuring the money will be distributed elsewhere. Congestion pricing, the $8 fee to enter Manhattan&#8217;s business districts would have funneled millions of dollars into projects like the Second Avenue subway while simultaneously reducing traffic on Manhattan streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians in New York State&#8217;s legislature have killed congestion pricing for New York City, reports the NY Times, Gothamist. By not acting today, Albany has given up New York City&#8217;s chance at $350 million in federal grants, assuring the money will be distributed elsewhere. Congestion pricing, the $8 fee to enter Manhattan&#8217;s business districts would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"views":1196,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}