So what I want to know is why now? Why not wait till later like when the summer is over and congestion pricing had a chance of passing.? What does this do to Bruno and getting his help with congestion pricing? Does this help or hurt? I think it, at least at the moment, hurts.

So it could be said that Bloomberg is willing to seemingly subvert one of his most important initiatives to "green" the city to the personal cause of his political ambition.