Unpacking the Two Proposals To Fix Mass Transit

Commuter crowded on the L train as service is operating at near peak capacity.

Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have competing ideas to improve the MTA. Mayor de Blasio recently proposed taxing the 1%ers and Governor Cuomo has another idea.

One way to fix the broken subway system? Charge congestion pricing. Will Bredderman, contributing politics writer for Crain's New York, and Alex Matthiessen, director of the MoveNY campaign and president of the Blue Marble Project, discuss the proposed plan to tax traffic coming into Manhattan in order to fix the subway system and gridlocked traffic on New York City streets.