Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Glenn McAnanama

Electeds Still Need to Hear From Pricing Supporters

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 18, 2008 | 8 Comments

After nearly a year of personally advocating for congestion pricing, I shared my fellow Streetsbloggers’ frustration as the current round ended not with a decisive vote, but with the clock running out on a federal funding deadline. As this great New York political battle fades into memory, I hope future historians will not remember this […]

4:00pm Gridlock at the 86th Street Boundary

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 25, 2007 | 17 Comments

In this StreetFilm, Upper Green Side’s Glenn McAnanama takes viewers on a brief tour of 86th St. and Second Ave., a heavily congested intersection on the northern boundary of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed congestion pricing zone. It’s 4:00 pm and it’s ugly.

CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 19, 2007 | 38 Comments

On Monday, July 9 the transportation committee of Community Board 8 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side took up the issues of congestion pricing and a new pair of crosstown bike lanes. Congestion pricing, it turns out, was the evening’s non-controversial issue. Even after a series of impassioned speeches against Mayor Bloomberg’s traffic reduction plan the […]

O’Donnell Supports PlaNYC, but Congestion Pricing?

By Jason Varone | Jun 29, 2007 | 5 Comments

Below is State Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell’s response to a letter from Streetsblog contributor Glenn McAnanama urging O’Donnell to support congestion pricing. O’Donnell claims that no specific legislation has been introduced regarding PlaNYC so he cannot take a position. O’Donnell represents the 69th Assembly District which includes Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, and the Upper West […]

Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety

By Aaron Donovan | Dec 31, 2006 | 29 Comments

On the evening of Saturday, January 10, 2004, Peter Hornbeck, 26, stepped off the curb at Park Avenue and 96th Street and was struck by a Chevy Suburban traveling 74 miles per hour. The SUV, being driven by a 26-year-old man from Queens who had had his license revoked years earlier, dragged Hornbeck for a block as Hornbeck’s friends cried out in […]