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A Bush administration official is bemoaning the failure of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing push, calling it a “loss for the city” and the opponents “shortsighted.” During a New York City Building Congress breakfast yesterday, the federal transit administrator for the U.S. Department of Transportation, James Simpson, spoke repeatedly of his disappointment in Albany’s failure to pass the congestion pricing legislation, and said New York City had lost out on hundreds of millions of dollars.

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|A Bush administration official is bemoaning the failure of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing push, calling it a “loss for the city” and the opponents “shortsighted.” During a New York City Building Congress breakfast yesterday, the federal transit administrator for the U.S. Department of Transportation, James Simpson, spoke repeatedly of his disappointment in Albany’s failure to pass the congestion pricing legislation, and said New York City had lost out on hundreds of millions of dollars.
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