Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about James Oddo

Cyclists Blindsided By City’s Erasure of Father Capodanno Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Nov 18, 2010 | 23 Comments

For the second time in 12 months, the Bloomberg administration will remove a link in the bicycle network after receiving complaints from bike lane opponents. The Staten Island Advance reports that the bike lane on Father Capodanno Boulevard will not be striped again after the street is repaved. The news comes two months after the […]

Electeds, Local Media Wage War on Staten Island Cyclists

By Brad Aaron | Aug 25, 2009 | 27 Comments

The recent motorist assault on a Staten Island cyclist is a symptom of anti-bike bias routinely displayed by local politicians and the Staten Island Advance, as chronicled on a web site encouraging action for safe streets. Council Members Vincent Ignizio (l) and James Oddo scientifically prove that bikes can’t fit on Jefferson Avenue in Dongan […]

State DOT Pulls Transit Bait-and-Switch on Staten Island

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2009 | 17 Comments

Photo: SI Advance via MTR. One of the more common excuses we’ve been hearing from local pols during the current MTA crisis is that "service never improves," so why bother to fund transit? Set aside, for the moment, the fact that subways and buses are moving way more New Yorkers than they did just a […]