Heastie Makes History: Assembly Has The Votes to Pass Congestion Pricing
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Gov. Cuomo's plan will pass. The details, however, are still being worked out.
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The Manhattan Assembly Members Who Were MIA on Congestion Pricing
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The failure to enact congestion pricing was a setback for the whole city, but no borough got a worse deal than Manhattan. And yet, as this deal was being negotiated, Manhattan elected officials didn't make a peep.
Bike-Share Stations Don’t Usurp Parking — They Are Parking
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Untrue/sad @CitiBikeNYC post by @DannyODonnellNY. Was tons of input + in this ‘hood < 5% park in street. No effect on commercial load/unload pic.twitter.com/4DLyIUcNjg — pfrishauf (@pfrishauf) October 5, 2016 Space hogs in Manhattan and Brooklyn are complaining about bike-share stations on neighborhood streets, and the powers that be are listening. In a letter to […]
Speed Limit Bills Shift to 25 MPH, Allow DOT to Designate 20 MPH Streets
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With Mayor de Blasio, the City Council, and families of traffic violence victims lining up behind lowering the city’s default speed limit from 30 to 25 mph, Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell and State Senator Martin Malave Dilan said this afternoon that they are amending their speed limit bills. Instead of establishing a 20 mph default […]
Council Reso Calls on Albany to Lower Citywide Speed Limit to 20 MPH
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Steve Levin and Ydanis Rodriguez today introduced a resolution calling on Albany to lower the citywide speed limit to 20 miles per hour, as proposed in legislation sponsored by Assembly Member Dan O’Donnell and state Senator Martin Dilan. “We have seen time and time again the pain inflicted on families as the result of crashes and we […]
Does Marty Golden Really Need Convincing That Lower Speeds Save Lives?
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The Daily News didn’t need to send anyone to stand in traffic for man-on-the-street reaction quotes on Dan O’Donnell’s bill to lower the speed limit in NYC to 20 miles per hour. Instead, all they had to do was call up Marty Golden. [Golden] called O’Donnell’s bill an “overreaction” and warned the lower speed limit […]