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Congestion Pricing Supporters Speak Up in Queens

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 10 Comments

Meghan Goth reports: With city buses slogging their way past double-parked cars on Archer Avenue just outside, Queens community members and elected officials testified on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program at York College Performing Arts Center last night. The Traffic Congestion Mitigation hearing, one of seven being held around […]

Queens Civic Congress Has Its Own Plan

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 31, 2007 | 3 Comments

No one who comes before the NYC Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission is going to admit to liking congestion. If they’re against the mayor’s congestion-pricing plan, they are usually going to come up with some kind of alternative. Take the Queens Civic Congress, which advanced its position at an Oct. 30 hearing. Jim Trent, the chair […]

Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

Community activists in Jackson Heights have been complaining about congestion at the corner at 73rd St. and 37th Ave. (right) for years. A major traffic study of the area is underway, but according to a DOT spokesman, the department didn’t want to wait to implement "short-term initiatives" that could ease the problem. Problem is, some […]

MTA Chief Lee Sander Talks Congestion Pricing in Queens

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 2, 2007 | 4 Comments

MTA CEO, Queens native and LIRR commuter Lee Sander received a warm reception then "faced some tough questions when he addressed a combined meeting of the Saul Weprin and Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Clubs on Thursday in Hollis Hills" last Thursday, the Queens Chronicle reports: Although he was welcomed back by old school chum Councilman David […]

Queens State Senator Sabini Arrested for DWI

By Brad Aaron | Sep 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

From the Times-Union: TU reporter Jordan Carleo-Evangelist reports that state Sen. John D. Sabini was arrested early this morning for driving while intoxicated on Washington Avenue after, police say, he failed to signal a turn and then drove down the center of two lanes. Sabini, 50, a Queens Democrat, was pulled over just after 1 […]

Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 28, 2007 | 25 Comments

DOT plans to simplify a dangerous Queens intersection where a school teacher was killed last December. Here we go again. As we recently saw on 9th Street in Park Slope and 91st Street on the Upper East Side, yet another "complete streets" project is coming under fire from community leaders, this time in Queens. This […]

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