{"id":3376,"date":"2008-04-26T07:36:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T12:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2008-04-26T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T12:36:35","slug":"what_bloomberg_lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/what_bloomberg_lost.html","title":{"rendered":"What Bloomberg Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>$354 million, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/04\/26\/2008-04-26_la_drives_away_with_nyc_cash.html\">now safely on its way to Los Angeles<\/a>, where I hear they actually have a pretty bad traffic problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Los Angeles snagged a $213 million federal grant to help speed traffic along its clogged highways &#8212; winning a big chunk of the $354 million New York had to give up when the Legislature killed congestion pricing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s safe to say they&#8217;re loving New York in L.A. today,&#8221; U.S. Department of Transportation spokesman Brian Turmail said Friday after announcing the award.<\/p>\n<p>New York had been guaranteed the pot of cash to set up a congestion pricing system but lost it when Albany killed the plan behind closed doors without voting this month.<\/p>\n<p>Turmail said DOT has not yet decided what cities will split the remaining $141 million.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is one of them, Mayor Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like Los Angeles, Chicago has also benefitted from New York&#8217;s loss and last week Mayor [Richard] Daley thanked Mayor Bloomberg,&#8221; said spokesman John Gallagher.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh well . . . at least we&#8217;ll always have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/the_luxury_of_trees.html\">those 18,000 trees<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$354 million, now safely on its way to Los Angeles, where I hear they actually have a pretty bad traffic problem: Los Angeles snagged a $213 million federal grant to help speed traffic along its clogged highways &#8212; winning a big chunk of the $354 million New York had to give up when the Legislature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}