Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bill de Blasio

De Blasio Lays Out Ambitious Goals for Street Safety, Better Buses, Bicycling

By Ben Fried | Jun 19, 2013 | 24 Comments

Bill de Blasio’s mayoral campaign released a wide-ranging policy book today, with a transportation platform that emphasizes the expansion of Select Bus Service, a “Vision Zero” approach to street safety, and the continued growth of the city’s bike lane and bike-share networks. De Blasio also pledges to target upzonings and new housing near transit and […]

De Blasio Gives NYPD an “F” on Transparency

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2013 | 1 Comment

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has given NYPD an “F” for its record of withholding information from the public. De Blasio’s “Transparency Report Card” rates city agencies’ response to freedom of information requests [PDF]. Looking at 10,000 FOIL requests over a three-month period in 2011, the report awards grades to 18 agencies “based on timeliness […]

At Transit Forum, Albanese, Allon, and Carrión Support Rational Tolls

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2013 | 5 Comments

Friday’s transit forum hosted by Transit Workers Union Local 100 and a coalition of rider advocacy groups offered an opportunity for a more more detailed discussion of transit policy than this year’s mayoral race has seen so far. While the candidates offered few specifics about how they would improve transit for the millions of New Yorkers who depend on […]

London Mayor: Get Bigshots Out of Cars, Onto Transit “Like Everybody Else”

By Stephen Miller | Feb 8, 2013 | 12 Comments

London Mayor Boris Johnson, whose entertaining quotes about Mike Bloomberg have been ricocheting around New York’s political circles today, could teach a thing or two to the candidates running for mayor here in NYC. Yesterday, “Boris from Islington” called in to a radio talk show with a recorded question for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about Parliament’s profligate […]

Toeing the NBBL Line, Bill de Blasio Runs for Mayor of 9 PPW

By Brad Aaron | Feb 6, 2013 | 35 Comments

Bill de Blasio’s comments in today’s Brooklyn Paper are straight out of the “Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes” playbook. To a question about whether he would dedicate space for biking and walking as mayor, de Blasio replied: The motivation [for bike lanes] has been noble but the approach has often been without the kind of communication […]

Why Is Bill de Blasio Afraid of Safer, Saner Streets?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 29, 2013 | 12 Comments

It was hard to miss mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio as he made the media rounds yesterday. After positioning himself as the “outer borough” candidate on the local Fox morning show, de Blasio — who voted against congestion pricing and the transit funds that would have come with it — traveled to Washington Heights to […]

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