April 7 (LPAC) -- The New York State Assembly killed the London
created Bloomberg congestion pricing plan for New York City
today, ahead of the midnight deadline to qualify for $354 million
in federal funding. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver refused to
bring the proposal up for a vote in his chamber, saying it did
not have enough support in the Democrat-controlled house. When
Briefed on the Bloomberg congestion tax development. Lyndon
LaRouche commented: "This now leaves Bloomberg with nothing but
his own constipation."

This is also a big defeat for the British, who devised and
promoted this scheme with the help from the Partnership for New
York, and fascists and neo-Anglophiles like the Secretary of
Transportation Mary Peters. Peters stated in a presentation to
the Partnership for New York on Jan. 14 that she had just gotten
back from a trip to London, that she had seen first hand the
success of the London congestion pricing plan, and that Mayor
Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan should be a model for the
nation.

The London-created Bloomberg plan had its start in 1975 when
the British colony of Singapore enacted the first-ever congestion
pricing plan. Then in the 1990s Britain looked into the
congestion pricing plan in which current Deputy Mayor of London
and Fabian Society member Nicky Gavron was chair of the London
Planning Advisory Committee and personally oversaw the initial
research into the proposed London congestion pricing plan. Nicky
Gavron and Ken Livingstone campaigned heavily for the congestion
pricing plan during his run for Mayor of London in the year 2000,
and in 2003 Mayor Livingstone rammed through the congestion
pricing plan, even though there was a large opposition to the plan
by the citizens of London.

The London congestion plan is being promoted by Oxford
academics like Georgina Santos who says in her presentations to
major transportation conferences and testimony to parliaments in
Europe, that the next cities that should adopt congestion pricing
are Paris, New York, and Rome.