Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about PlaNYC

Quinn Announces Her Support for Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 18, 2007 | 12 Comments

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced her support for congestion pricing at a press conference this morning on the Hudson River Greenway at Charles Street: Over the past two months I have been carefully reviewing the 127 items included in PlaNYC 2030. Many of these grew out of the Mayor’s Sustainability Task Force, which the […]

It’s the Bus Riders, Stupid.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

Is Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan, a regressive tax, unfair to New York City’s poor and working class? That’s what Westchester Assembly member Richard Brodsky and quite a few of the other critics claim. Before last week’s public hearing before the state legislature Brodsky cited a study commissioned by City Hall showing the mayor’s plan […]

A Bronx Cheer for Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 15, 2007 | 2 Comments

At a press conference today, a group of Bronx and northern Manhattan elected officials have signed on in support of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing effort. They are: Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Assembly member Michael Benedetto Assembly member Adam Clayton Powell IV Bronx Democratic Chair and Assembly member Jose Rivera. Council member James Vacca. Council […]

Andy Wiley-Schwartz Starts at DOT on Monday

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 15, 2007 | 7 Comments

Department of Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan continues to assemble an impressive management team. Following in the footsteps of Bruce Schaller and Jon Orcutt, Project for Public Spaces vice president and transportation program director Andy Wiley-Schwartz is heading over to 40 Worth Street where he will be reporting to Deputy Commissioner Schaller at DOT’s new Office […]

New TV Ad Focuses on PlaNYC’s Health Benefits

By Jason Varone | Jun 12, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Campaign for New York’s Future has released a new poll, a glossy mailer that’ll go out to 380,000 families, and a television advertisement focusing on the health benefits of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030. The Daily Politics has a nice write-up: With time running out up in Albany and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver saying he […]

112,000 Less Cars

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2007 | 33 Comments

Here are more points from Friday’s PlaNYC Hearing: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff estimated congestion pricing would remove 112,000 cars from city streets on a daily basis, with 94,000 would-be drivers switching to transit, in what he said would be "Probably the single greatest mode shift anywhere." DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller said that whatever edge […]

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