Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Anthony Weiner

Weiner Alone Incurred One Eighth of Congress’s Unpaid Parking and Traffic Tix

By Ben Fried | Mar 29, 2011 | 7 Comments

This just in from the muckrakers at Roll Call: Of the $15,000+ in outstanding parking and traffic fines accumulated by members of Congress, more than $2,000 was owed by NYC’s Anthony Weiner alone, according to reporters’ survey of license plates and records. Weiner promptly paid the fines after Roll Call informed him of the findings. […]

Weiner: There’s No Need for “Warfare Over Bike Lanes”

By Brad Aaron | Mar 24, 2011 | 22 Comments

Queens Congressman Anthony Weiner has edged a little closer to clarifying his now-infamous “tearing out your [expletive] bike lanes” remark. Though he previously seemed to confirm what many suspected — that the Times, in its zeal for a juicy lede, turned an off-the-cuff exchange with Mayor Bloomberg into an indictment of transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan […]

Tell Electeds and the Media: I’m a New Yorker, and I Want Safer Streets

By Brad Aaron | Mar 7, 2011 | 10 Comments

Does Anthony Weiner really intend to someday rip out all the bike lanes in New York City? Or was his remark to Mayor Bloomberg “on a balmy night last June” merely a topical quip blown out of proportion in last week’s Times profile of Janette Sadik-Khan? We’ve queried Weiner’s office to find out, but the […]

The New York Times JSK Profile: Politicos vs. Progressive Transportation

By Ben Fried | Mar 4, 2011 | 61 Comments

Has the Times ever published a profile so singularly devoted to one city commissioner’s relationships with other public figures as this Michael Grynbaum story? It’s not so much a profile of transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan as a 2,500-word description of her place in New York’s political firmament. The question that drives the piece forward is […]

Weiner Says New York Drivers Should Be Exempt From Tolls

By Brad Aaron | Mar 9, 2009 | 19 Comments

Congressman Anthony Weiner released his own MTA rescue plan today. As if that in itself weren’t surprising enough, the outspoken toll opponent has modified his position, sort of. City Room reports: [Weiner] said on Monday that making new tolls — which he would set at $4.15 — payable only by non-city residents would be a […]

The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 2

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 30, 2008 | 21 Comments

Biggest Setback: After being approved by an unprecedented civic coalition, the mayor and New York City Council, congestion pricing — the one policy measure that simultaneously reduces traffic congestion while raising money for mass transit and livable streets — died in an Albany backroom without even a vote. Lobbyists of the Year: Walter McCaffrey and […]

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