Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

Critical Transportation Reforms Sink With Pricing

By John Kaehny | Jul 18, 2007 | 7 Comments

An enforcement camera in London captures a motorist in the bus lane. Mayor Bloomberg’s strategy was to bundle all of the PlanNYC transportation reforms requiring legislative approval into one bill. The sinking of the congestion pricing ship took other victims with it. Lost with congestion pricing was legislation approving bus lane enforcement cameras, residential parking […]

Highlights From This Week’s Mobilizing the Region

By Jason Varone | Jul 13, 2007 | 3 Comments

The latest issue of Mobilizing the Region digs in to the arguments of congestion pricing foes. Some highlights: NYC: Debunking the Alternatives Instead of heading to Albany and working out legislation to ensure NYC receives federal aid for transit and congestion pricing, State Assemblymembers’ offered their own "alternatives" to Mayor Bloomberg’s pricing proposal. Policy groups […]

BRT Moving Ahead but City Pushes Back the Timeline a Bit

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 13, 2007 | 7 Comments

Dept. of Transportation Comissioner Janette Sadik-Khan tells NY1 Transit reporter Bobby Cuza that New York City and the MTA still plan to implement a Bus Rapid Transit program, with or without Albany’s approval of congestion pricing. In an e-mail to Streetsblog, Cuza also adds: They’re clearly going back and giving the program some more thought. […]

Details of Proposed Bus Service Expansion

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 12, 2007 | 9 Comments

The other day I noted that one of the most destructive pieces of misinformation floating around the New York State Assembly is this line from Assembly Member Richard Brodsky’s congestion pricing report: The City has no plan to improve mass transit prior to the implementation of congestion pricing. This is a serious if not fatal […]

$300+ Million in Bus Improvements Held Hostage in Albany

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

One of the most destructive pieces of misinformation currently floating around the New York State Assembly is this oft-repeated line from Richard Brodsky’s newly released report: The City has no plan to improve mass transit prior to the implementation of congestion pricing. This is a serious if not fatal defect in the proposal in the […]

Queens Legislator Offers Congestion Pricing Torpedo

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 38 Comments

Assembly Member Rory Lancman from Fresh Meadows, Queens has sent a three-page letter to his fellow legislators soliciting their support for a legislative alternate to Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal and long-term planning ominbus bill, Sewell Chan reports. "Instead of threatening to beat New Yorkers over the head with a $2,000 a year stick if […]

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