Congestion Pricing in New York, a New Mayor in Chicago
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Gelinas and Aaron Renn join Seth Barron to discuss recent developments in New York and Chicago.
In the first week of April, both cities marked milestones: Manhattan got the nation's first congestion-pricing plan, courtesy of the state legislature, while Chicago elected its first black woman as mayor.
New York City's transit system badly needs improvement, but Gelinas argues that this congestion-pricing plan is effectively a state money grab. Meantime, Mayor-Elect Lori Lightfoot is a political outsider, but Renn writes that she has an opportunity to change the "Chicago Way" of doing business.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. |
| 0:05.5 | Coming up on the show today, my colleague Seth Barron, invited two of our contributing editors, |
| 0:10.4 | Nicole Jelineas, and Aaron Wren, to give us an update on recent developments in two of the nation's big cities, |
| 0:17.8 | New York, where we are, and where you might hear some of the construction sounds |
| 0:21.4 | we're living with these days, and Chicago. There's been a lot of developments in both cities |
| 0:26.2 | lately. A few weeks ago, Chicago elected its first black woman as mayor of the city. Her name |
| 0:32.8 | Lori Lightfoot, and she's a political outsider in a town traditionally known for its machine politics. |
| 0:39.0 | The day before that election, New York's state legislature passed the country's first ever |
| 0:43.7 | congestion pricing plan, which will allow the state and city to charge drivers entering |
| 0:49.8 | the most crowded parts of Manhattan. We'll have Nicole Jelineas to give us the details on the podcast |
| 0:56.9 | about that and Aaron Wren on Chicago. But a few more announcements before we get started. First, |
| 1:03.2 | City Journal readers will be happy to know. The spring 2019 issue has officially arrived at our |
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| 1:42.3 | That's it for me. |
| 1:43.3 | After the music, Seth Barron will talk with Aaron Rinn and |
| 1:47.3 | Nicole Jelineas. We hope you enjoy. |
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