Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Metropolitan Parking Association

An appeal slowed down the M14 Busway, but a ruling on Friday may jumpstart it. Photo: Google Maps

CYCLE OF RAGE: Mr. Mayor, Commit Now to Retaining L-Train Improvements

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 5, 2019 | 9 Comments

The mayor must keep the streetscape improvements — the bus lanes, the bike lanes, the carpool restrictions, the 14th Street busway, the ferries, the extended G trains, etc. — that were set in place for the L-train shutdown.

Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 54 Comments

Westchester Democrat Richard Brodsky has emerged as the State Assembly’s leading critic of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Later today Brodsky will release a report on the steps of City Hall characterizing the Mayor’s congestion pricing plan as a regressive tax that puts most of the burden on poor and middle-income drivers (and ignoring the […]

David Weprin: The Parking Garage Industry’s Valet?

By Jason Varone | Jun 18, 2007 | 5 Comments

The Post finds that Queens City Council Member David Weprin has been raking in campaign contributions from parking garage owners, all the while serving as one of the loudest critics of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. This ought to sound familiar to Streetsblog readers. Back in May we found that Weprin had taken in at […]