OPINION: How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality
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Transportation policies prioritizing private vehicle use leave the poor and people of color behind.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Campaign Contributions
Billionaire Developer Pours Cash into Fight Against Council Candidates Endorsed by StreetsPAC
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Common Sense NYC has spent more than $270,000 on mailers and digital advertising attacking five Democratic council candidates endorsed by StreetsPAC.
Auto Industry Celebrates a Republican House It Helped Put In Power
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You might still be recuperating from your post-election hangover, but automotive executives are celebrating victory after victory. Auto industry lobbyists are predicting a good couple of years, according to a report by Automotive News. They’re betting the Republican majority in the House will “investigate, slow and try to block Obama administration initiatives that it considers […]
New Investigation Finds 2,100 Transport Lobbyists Working the System
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Interest groups seeking to influence transportation policy-making have long flooded the capital with campaign cash and lobbyists — and their numbers are rising at an eye-popping rate. Nearly 1,800 interests are employing at least 2,100 transportation lobbyists to work the system in anticipation of the next federal infrastructure bill, according to a Center for Public […]
Auto Dealers, Parking Garages and, Well, Lots of Others Fund Shelly
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In case you missed it last week, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is raising bucket-loads of campaign cash — lots more than his two opponents, Paul Newell and Luke Henry. Groups that opposed congestion pricing are, no surprise, among some of the most enthusiastic contributors. The Times reported: Like Mr. Paterson and Mr. […]
David Weprin: The Parking Garage Industry’s Valet?
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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 […]