Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gene Russianoff

Disconnect Between Pols and People at Brooklyn Traffic Hearing

By Ben Fried | Jan 25, 2008 | 27 Comments

On balance, speakers at last night’s traffic mitigation hearing in Brooklyn delivered a pro-pricing message — a strong one if you discount the politicians who said their piece and left the auditorium before their constituents got to the mic. About 60 people came to Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights and weighed in on the […]

MTA Cheered and Jeered, But Mostly Jeered

By Brad Aaron | Dec 20, 2007 | 6 Comments

Reactions were mixed to yesterday’s MTA fare hike approval. That is to say — with the exception of the New York Post — there was enough criticism to go around as to generally avoid repetition. The Daily News, which has pounded the transit agency with its "Halt the Hike" series ("Even as the MTA is […]

Russianoff and Schneiderman Map the MTA’s Road to ‘Ruin’

By Brad Aaron | Nov 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

In today’s Daily News, Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign and State Senator Eric Schneiderman examine how the MTA ended up the most debt-ridden transit system in the United States, and urge state leaders to chart a new course. The governor must prevent next year’s state budget from being a carbon copy of the budgets […]

The M23 Bus Earns the 2007 Pokey Award

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 30, 2007 | 8 Comments

The slowest bus in New York City is… Manhattan’s M23, crosstown at 23rd Street. Remind me again why New York City hasn’t eliminated private automobiles on its major crosstown streets and established dedicated rights-of-way for buses, special loading zones and times for delivery trucks? CityRoom has the details: “Nearly one in three of its buses […]

Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission Opens for Business

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 26, 2007 | 20 Comments

Westchester Assembly member Richard Brodsky on Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal: "My problem is that I don’t understand what you’ve proposed." "This is going to be interesting," Straphangers Campaign Senior Staff Attorney Gene Russianoff said as he waited for the start of yesterday’s inaugural Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission meeting. "Usually with these things, the fix […]

Pricing Panel Appointees Announced

By Brad Aaron | Aug 21, 2007 | 30 Comments

From NYC.gov. Bios of the members after the jump. Mayor Michael Bloomberg today joined Governor Eliot Spitzer, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith, Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to announce appointments to the New York City Traffic Mitigation Congestion Commission established […]

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