Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Deborah Glick

TA, Manhattan Pols Urge DOT to Commit to Fully Redesigning Fifth and Sixth

By Stephen Miller | Oct 8, 2015 | 23 Comments

Last month DOT announced its intent to add a protected bike lane along 19 blocks of Sixth Avenue. A coalition of advocates, business groups, community board representatives, and elected officials think the city can do better. At a press conference next to the Flatiron Building this morning, they called on DOT to redesign the entire length of Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. In a […]

Albany Update: Will Any Transpo Bills Make It Out Alive?

By Noah Kazis | May 24, 2011 | No Comments

This year’s legislative session is rapidly coming to a close in Albany. With the state legislature wrapping up its regularly scheduled official business on June 20, the Capitol is entering a period of intense activity as legislators and lobbyists make a final push for their priorities. Albany has some big items on its agenda this […]

Deborah Glick Revives Push for Life-Saving Speed Cameras

By Brad Aaron | May 6, 2011 | 10 Comments

Legislation allowing the city to curb deadly driving through the use of speed enforcement cameras will soon resurface in Albany. A bill introduced last year called for a pilot program of 40 cameras, to be installed at crash-prone city intersections. Photographs would be taken of license plates (not of drivers), and tickets issued to vehicle […]

Revenge of the Free Riders

By Aaron Naparstek | May 15, 2008 | 21 Comments

From Transportation Alternatives’ Spring 2008 magazine: The biggest hurdle congestion pricing faced was the simple fact that the people required to enact the legislation were the ones who stood to pay the most because of it. On Monday, April 7, Sheldon Silver walked out of a closed door meeting of State Assembly Democrats and announced […]

Daily News to Congestion Pricing Opponents: “Your Fault”

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2008 | 15 Comments

With higher gas prices pushing drivers onto the city’s trains and buses, the Daily News today blasted Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Dems for passing up the billions of dollars that congestion pricing would have brought to MTA coffers. The trends prove that the theory of congestion pricing was valid: When the cost of driving […]

Glick’s Excuse: Everything But the Kitchen Sink

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2008 | 45 Comments

Welcome to Glickville As Deborah Glick herself would tell you, no state legislator had more reason to support congestion pricing than she did. In a district where 95.4 percent of working residents would not have paid the charge, where households with a car are outnumbered by households sans vehicle three to one, and which nonetheless […]

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