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CENTER FOR RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT
AT THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE

INVITES YOU TO A PANEL DISCUSSION AND BREAKFAST

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2006
8:00 AM - Registration & Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM - Program

Harvard Club
35 West 44th Street
New York City

ON:
ROAD PRICING WORKED IN LONDON. CAN IT WORK IN NEW YORK?
WHAT NEW YORKERS THINK

SPEAKERS:
Bruce Schaller
Principal, Schaller Consulting
Kathryn Wylde
President & CEO, Partnership for New York City

PANELISTS:
Samuel Schwartz
President & CEO, Sam Schwartz Engineering, PLLC
David Weprin
City Council Member, 23rd District, Queens
Chairman, New York City Finance Committee

MODERATOR:
Hope Cohen
Deputy Director, Center for Rethinking Development

Is New York City choking on its own traffic? Gridlock, pollution, and noise lead many New Yorkers to think so. But every traffic-easing solution involves costs imposed on citizens and businesses—and therefore meets steep resistance. Faced with heavy traffic of its own, London initiated a congestion pricing scheme in 2003 that is now widely regarded as successful. Would some variation on road pricing work in New York?

A new report on the feasibility of road pricing in New York, Battling Traffic: What New Yorkers Think, by transportation consultant Bruce Schaller, will be released by the Manhattan Institute. New findings on the economic impact of congestion pricing in London—and the implications for New York—will be discussed by Partnership President Kathryn Wylde. Congestion-pricing advocate Samuel Schwartz and congestion-pricing opponent David Weprin will offer their analyses of these issues.

Please join us for this stimulating discussion.