Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about David Gantt

If Texting-While-Driving Ban Fails, Blame Albany’s “Democracy of One”

By Ben Fried | | 10 Comments
Sheldon Silver. Photo: Daily News. Last week Streetsblog followed up on the stalled progress of a statewide texting-while-driving ban, a bill that appears to be going nowhere even though almost everyone on the Assembly transportation committee supports it, according to Brooklyn representative Felix Ortiz. When we contacted Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s office, a spokesperson told […]

Tom Brady, and Baby Jack, Bike in Boston

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I’m pretty much required to hate Tom Brady. However, two Super Bowl wins in the last four seasons (that’d be six all told, but who’s counting?) have salved the wounds of those AFC championship losses at the hands of Brady in 2001 and 2004. And hey, the man rides a […]

Assembly Transpo Chair LOLZ @ Txting-While-Driving Ban

By Ben Fried | | 9 Comments
One in four American motorists text and drive, despite the fact that distracted driving is implicated in 80 percent of all crashes. Photo: Switched. When reports surfaced last week that Assembly Member David Gantt intends to block a statewide texting-while-driving ban (again), we were curious: What does the chairman of the transportation committee have against […]

Red Light Cam Expansion Gets All Clear From Gantt

By Ben Fried | | 5 Comments
Red-light running "events" have declined dramatically where cameras have been installed. Source: NYCDOT. New York City’s red light cam program is on track to expand by 50 percent, pending legislation currently winding through Albany. Since 1994, the city has run a red light camera "demonstration program" — with proven safety benefits — which has to […]

Silver Gives Gantt Two More Years Atop Transpo Committee

By Ben Fried | | 10 Comments
Sheldon Silver and David Gantt On Thursday, Sheldon Silver re-appointed Rochester’s David Gantt to chair the Assembly Transportation Committee (Excel spreadsheet via Daily Politics). Gantt is the chairman who engineered the defeat of bus lane enforcement cameras last June, when six co-sponsors of the bill wound up voting against it in his committee. With the […]

The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 2

By Aaron Naparstek | | 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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