He called congestion pricing "essential to the future of New York City".
At slower speeds on open roads, a feature called Congestion Assist steers, accelerates and brakes by itself.
"The answer to this is called congestion pricing," said John Kaehny, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a nonprofit watchdog group.
In the wake of Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to calm Manhattan traffic through a plan called congestion pricing, the City section asked its readers to offer their own solutions for easing the borough's traffic woes.
During his second inaugural address a year ago, San Francisco's mayor, Gavin Newsom, called congestion pricing "the single greatest step we can take to protect our environment and improve our quality of life".
In the evening, Walter McCaffrey, a former City Councilman who is the group's spokesman, issued a brief statement: "Even Governor Paterson's good name on Good Friday cannot resurrect this flawed and unfair tax legislation called congestion pricing".
Mayor Bloomberg's plan for what he calls "congestion pricing" would impose fees of up to $8 a day for cars and $21 a day for trucks driving below 86th Street between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays.
He often talks about what he calls congestion pricing, noting that London officials charge drivers for the use of clogged inner streets, and says bridge tolls could be increased at peak travel times to discourage traffic.
This form of traffic management, which is called "congestion pricing" (although its promoters like to call it "value pricing," because that sounds better), is a relatively easy system to implement; the technology necessary for it to work already exists, in the form of the E-Z Pass.
When the mayor released his executive budget in February, he included a projection of $100 million to $800 million in revenues over the next few years from something called "congestion pricing," which the administration later conceded was connected to potential tolls on the East River crossings.
