Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Queens

Queens State Senator Sabini Pleads to DWAI

By Brad Aaron | Feb 6, 2008 | 7 Comments

State Senator John Sabini, of Queens, has pleaded guilty to Driving While Ability Impaired following an arrest for DWI in Albany last September. The Daily Politics ran this excerpt from Sabini’s statement, released yesterday: "Today, I entered a plea of guilty to driving while impaired, a traffic violation, accepting full personal responsibility for the events […]

Word on the Street: Pricing “Like Charging You to Breathe”

By Brad Aaron | Jan 31, 2008 | 1 Comment

WNYC had a short piece on the upcoming congestion panel vote this morning. It’s a series of "word on the street" comments. Some of them are funny, others not so much. The gist is that a lot of people still don’t know — or don’t believe — that pricing revenues will be invested in transit. […]

Parking Workshops Set for Queens and Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | Jan 28, 2008 | 6 Comments

The Department of Transportation will hold three more neighborhood parking workshops this week, two in Queens and one in Brooklyn. In tandem with congestion pricing, residential parking permits and other curbside parking reforms being considered by DOT could eventually lead to city-wide reductions in neighborhood traffic and double parking. As shown by Streetsbloggers who have […]

Proof That Congestion Pricing Supporters Do Exist in Queens

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 25, 2008 | 15 Comments

Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee Chair Mike Heffron sends along this report from last night’s traffic commission hearing at York College in Jamaica, Queens. No huge surprise, Assemblymen Andrew Hevesi and Rory Lancman both came out against congestion pricing, citing not enough evidence it would work and demanding transit improvements without explaining where the money would […]

As Anti-Pricing Arguments Fall Away, It’s Just Parking & Politics

By Brad Aaron | Jan 17, 2008 | 6 Comments

Over the weekend, City Council Member David Weprin and "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free" spokesman Walter McCaffrey got a lot of press by casting doubt on whether congestion pricing revenues would, as promised, be invested in transit. It looks like a plan was already in the works to allay that fear. The Daily News reports: […]

More Boring Photos

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 10, 2007 | 6 Comments

The entrance to the East Side Access work site in Sunnyside, Queens Last week, MTA PR man Jeremy Soffin sent along an interesting news blip about the gigantic tunnel boring machine chewing up the schist beneath 60th Street in Manhattan for the MTA’s East Side Access project. It turns out that blogger Michael Frumin knows […]

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