Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eric Adams

Take a Look at Eric Adams’ Bike Safety Bill (and a German Driving Test)

By Ben Fried | Oct 6, 2010 | 14 Comments

For everyone curious about the bike safety bill from State Senator Eric Adams that we mentioned on Monday, here are the basics. The bill would add a bike and pedestrian safety component to the five-hour course that New Yorkers must take before obtaining their first drivers license. This course currently includes sections educating prospective motorists […]

New Yorkers Taxed (Again) for Not Owning Cars

By Brad Aaron | Jun 26, 2009 | 12 Comments

MetroCard machines aren’t the only place where the price of transit is going up. Reader Steven O’Neill points out that New Yorkers who sometimes rely on rental cars are now being hit with an additional five percent "bailout" tax, bringing the total tax for renting close to 20 percent. Says Steven: This means that I, […]

Responding to Criticism, Sen. Adams to Hold Transpo Meeting

By Brad Aaron | May 29, 2008 | 13 Comments

We posted yesterday about proposed legislation by State Senators Eric Adams and Jeff Klein to increase summer driving by suspending tolls on bridges and tunnels, thereby leaving transit riders to pay for their largess. Soon after, Adams constituent Carrie McLaren picked up the news on her neighborhood blog, Hawthorne Street. Now Adams wants to hold […]

Look Who’s Pledged to be an Obama Delegate…

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 5, 2008 | 10 Comments

I was surprised to find on my ballot this morning, pledged as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention on behalf of Barack Obama, State Senator Eric Adams, friend of double-parkers everywhere.

This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month?

By Aaron Naparstek | May 2, 2007 | 31 Comments

Sources say that first-term Brooklyn State Senator Eric Adams has delivered a lengthy letter to Department of Transportation Acting Commissioner Judith Bergtraum expressing opposition to DOT’s 9th Street traffic safety and bike lane plan. Though the Senator, a former cop, has no urban planning or traffic engineering background, he questions DOT’s assertion that its plan […]