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StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley

By Sarah Goodyear | | No Comments
Talking Transportation with Bob KileyProduced by Cicala FilmworksRunning Time: 13 minutes 7 seconds The debate over congestion pricing has been heating up in advance of Mayor Bloomberg’s big Earth Day speech tomorrow. What better time to get some talking points on the matter from Bob Kiley, who served as the Commissioner of Transport for London […]

Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards

By Sarah Goodyear | | No Comments
The Fort Greene Association has scored another victory in the fight against abuse of placarded parking, this time with some help from very high places. According to Fredrik Anderson, the FGA’s vice chair and head of its transportation committee, neighborhood merchants and residents had been frustrated that state employees who work at 55 Hanson Place […]

Detractors Find Congestion Pricing Facts in Short Supply

By Brad Aaron | | 20 Comments
  Add the Queens Chamber of Commerce to the list of pre-emptive congestion pricing foes. The chamber’s Legislative Advocacy Committee has prepped a report on the "harmful effects" of congestion pricing on businesses, and chamber members are also reportedly spreading the word. Writing in the chamber newsletter, Queensborough, QCC President Raymond J. Irrera espouses the […]

Pedi Politics

By Aaron Naparstek | | 6 Comments
On Monday, April 23, the day after Earth Day and the Mayor’s Long-Term Sustainability speech, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn plans to hold a decisive vote on Intro. 331-A, a law limiting and restricting pedicabs. Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the bill but rather than going back and trying to improve the legislation by, say, simply increasing […]
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