Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Janette Sadik-Khan

Who Will be the Next DOT Commissioner?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 31, 2007 | 18 Comments

People are starting to kick around the names of potential successors to outgoing DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall. This morning, Crain’s Insider reports: Insiders believe that Mayor Mike Bloomberg will look inside his administration for Iris Weinshall’s replacement as transportation commissioner. But because Bloomberg will be out in 2009, top transportation people may favor state jobs: […]

Congestion Charging in New York City: The Political Bloodbath

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 4, 2006 | 11 Comments

Though many New Yorkers are learning about congestion charging for the first time this week, the transportation policy community has been working to sell this idea to a resistant public for more than three decades. What happens when Nobel Prize winning theory meets bare-fisted New York City politics? A heavily condensed version of this story ran in this week’s […]

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 […]

Rumor Mill: Sustainability Announcement Tomorrow

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 14, 2006 | 30 Comments

Word has it that the Bloomberg Administration’s new Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability will unveil its first work product this coming Wednesday, November 15. It looks like this initial public announcement will be oriented more around the problems that the new office is thinking about and working on rather than the solutions. The solutions, I am told, may start to emerge as […]