Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about David Gantt

Gov’s Budget Would Beef Up Red Light Camera Program

By Ben Fried | Dec 22, 2008 | 15 Comments

Red light cams have been proven to increase safety on New York City streets. Photo: mwilkie/Flickr Dig deep enough into Governor Paterson’s austerity budget and you’ll actually find a few pieces of good news. Case in point: One provision would allow New York to expand its red light camera program, currently limited to 100 cameras, […]

Shocker: Speed Limits Are Useless Without Enforcement

By Ben Fried | Nov 11, 2008 | 8 Comments

If drivers don’t acknowledge the risk of speeding, street designs and enforcement practices have to do it for them. New research from Purdue University highlights the futility of controlling drivers’ speed with signs. The Times’ health blog has the story: When it comes to speeding, many American motorists don’t worry about safety. They just worry […]

What If a Rep From NYC Chaired the Assembly Transpo Committee?

By Ben Fried | Sep 15, 2008 | 5 Comments

As the Ravitch Commission’s first public hearing on how to fix the MTA’s budget woes gets underway, this paragraph from today’s Times story on the Rochester Regional Transit Service (annual budget: $62 million) bears mentioning: Just four years ago, the Rochester authority was in financial straits and facing large deficits. Since then, it has lobbied […]

Pin it on Shelly!

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 3, 2008 | 46 Comments

With New York City’s mostly uncontested primary elections less than a week away, attention turns to the 64th State Assembly district in Lower Manhattan, where New York Times-endorsed insurgent Paul Newell is running a long-shot campaign against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Facing his first Democratic challenge since the coining of the word “cyberspace,” the decidedly […]

Eyes on the Street: 34th Street Runs Red With Paint

By Ben Fried | Aug 4, 2008 | 18 Comments

Streetsblog’s Brad Aaron — on vacation in exotic, uh, Midtown — sends this pic of a newly-striped 34th Street bus lane, looking east from Eighth Avenue. Red lanes on each side of 34th are part of the first phase of improvements to what is intended to become the city’s first "transitway." Another witness says the […]

Why Is David Gantt Still Running the Assembly Transpo Committee?

By Ben Fried | Jul 24, 2008 | 9 Comments

The Times published a great reminder today about last month’s bus camera vote in the Assembly Transportation Committee, which weakened the city’s plans for Bus Rapid Transit. The editorial page wonders why David Gantt, who for years has obstructed life-saving, transit-enhancing traffic enforcement measures, is still in charge of the committee: Mr. Gantt is a […]

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