NY Candidate Cuomo: Congestion Pricing "Moot"  Thursday, October
21, 2010 - 04:13 PM  (New York -- Andrea Bernstein,
Transportation Nation)  Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Andrew Cuomo has been a bit of a cipher when it comes to
transportation and transit.  He's bemoaned MTA inefficiencies,
called into question an employer-tax imposed last year to help
bail out the MTA, and said fares shouldn't go up. But he's said
little about financing the authority over the long term.  Today,
in his most extensive remarks to date on transit, he didn't add
much.  The occasion was the release of his 273-page urban
agenda, which by the way, did NOT include transit.  It was the
kind of "urban agenda" you'd hear in the 1990's: anti-poverty,
affordable housing, minority jobs. (By contrast, Shaun Donovan,
the current HUD Secretary -- Cuomo's former job -- has made
sustainable, walking, transit-rich communities a major plank in
his agenda.)  But all the journalists there, pretty much, wanted
to talk transit.  In fact, I didn't