Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gene Russianoff

Pricing is Alive. JFK Rail Link and SMART Fund May be Dead.

By Aaron Naparstek | May 21, 2007 | 14 Comments

Annie Karni reports in today’s New York Sun that the outlines of a congestion pricing bill may be hammered out in Albany before Memorial Day, though not exactly as Mayor Bloomberg initially proposed. Karni writes that MTA executive director Lee Sander would prefer to see the $3.75 billion earmarked for a direct rail link from […]

PlanNYC’s Public Political Push Starts Today

By Jason Varone | May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

From a press release that just came across the Streetsblog transom: Leading members of the Campaign for New York’s Future, a broad coalition of 80 environmental, public health, civic, labor, community and business organizations, will today join Mayor Bloomberg in separate meetings with Governor Eliot Spitzer and State legislators to help call attention to the […]

Gene Russianoff on the MTA’s Day of Reckoning

By John Kaehny | May 4, 2007 | 9 Comments

Gene Russianoff, Senior Attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, has been New York City’s leading transit advocate for decades. Streetsblog recently spoke with Gene about the MTA’s impending fiscal crises and other transit issues. SB: How real is this predicted fiscal crises? How does it compare to past crises? GR: Start with the numbers. They have […]

Is a 1.3 mph Increase in Crosstown Traffic Speed “Innovative?”

By Jason Varone | Feb 7, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Staten Island Advance reports on Monday’s press conference outlining the qualities that leading City Council members would like to see in the next DOT Commissioner. The Bloomberg Administration responded to the Council with the following statement: The Mayor will appoint a commissioner who will carry out policies to meet the sustainability challenges he […]

Help Wanted at DOT: Creative Thinkers Encouraged to Apply

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 6, 2007 | 18 Comments

Chairman of the City Council Transportation Committee, John C. Liu, praised outgoing DOT commissioner Iris Weinshall and called for an innovative thinker as her successor. You’ve already weighed in on what you’d like to see in the next DOT commissioner. Now members of the City Council and Transportation Alternatives have weighed in too, with a press conference […]

Gov. Spitzer Transition Team Transpo Committee Named

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 20, 2006 | No Comments

It includes some leading members of the congestion charging brainstrust and some big MTA reformers. Via Chuck Bennett at AMNY: Co-chairs Elliot Sander, director of NYU Rudin Center for Transportation, VP at MTA contractor DMJM Harris and former city Dept. of Transporation commisioner. (Rumored to an MTA chairman candidate) Mary Ann Crotty, former transportation advisor for […]

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