Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Christine Quinn

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 […]

Quinn Says She Still Supports Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Feb 15, 2013 | 7 Comments

After some pressing from Capital political reporter Azi Paybarah, Christine Quinn followed up her evasive and pessimistic statements about congestion pricing this morning with a firmer but still pessimistic statement about her position: “I supported congestion pricing. I support congestion pricing. I do not see it coming back in Albany but my support for congestion […]

One Year and 280+ Deaths Later, No Council Progress on NYPD Crash Reforms

By Brad Aaron | Feb 15, 2013 | 7 Comments

It was a year ago today that the City Council transportation committee, led by James Vacca and Peter Vallone Jr., convened a hearing on pedestrian and cyclist safety and the failure of NYPD to properly investigate traffic crashes. “Driving in our city is a privilege, not a right,” said Vacca, to a room packed with […]

Chris Quinn: “I Don’t Anticipate Congestion Pricing Coming Back Around”

By Ben Fried | Feb 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

Dana Rubinstein reports that City Council speaker and current mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn is bearish on congestion pricing’s political prospects: “I don’t anticipate congestion pricing coming back around,” City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told an audience at New York Law School today, when asked about its near-term future. “It didn’t do well and I don’t […]

Quinn, Citing “Middle Class Squeeze,” Ignores High Cost of Transportation

By Stephen Miller | Feb 11, 2013 | 30 Comments

Just hours before her final State of the City address today, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn released a report on the challenges facing middle-class New Yorkers. But her vision has a conspicuous blind spot: the transportation costs consuming more than one in ten dollars of the average NYC household budget. Quinn’s report talks a lot about housing policy, […]

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 […]

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