Congestion pricing chances fading
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- April
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Assemblyman Richard Brodsky wasn’t quite ready to take a victory lap around noon today with the congestion-pricing issue unlikely to be approved by the Legislature by midnight, which is the deadline for passage if New York City is to get $354 million from the federal government to ease traffic congestion. But he sounded confident the idea won’t be approved by the Legislature.
“The mayor is entitled to his vision, and the Legislature is entitled to say, ‘we don’t think this is in the public’s interest,’‘’ said Brodsky, D-Greenburgh. “As of today, the votes aren’t there for it.’’
Assembly Democrats were huddling behind closed doors early this afternoon for one final talk about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to charge motorists $8 to drive below 60th St. in Manhattan between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. weekdays. All signs point to the measure failing.
Still, Brodsky said that things could still change before Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, decides whether the bring the matter up for a vote.
“I’m not saying it’s dead. The Speaker hasn’t made the determination,’’ he sai
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky is a true leader, he is a man of conviction who supports vehemently what he believes is best for the people he represents. We need more leaders like Assemblyman Brodsky in Albany.