Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about John Liu

How Many Are Hurt and Killed in NYPD-Involved Crashes? Don’t Ask NYPD.

By Brad Aaron | Mar 13, 2013 | 6 Comments

Gothamist has been following the case of Ryo Oyamada, the Japanese student who was struck and killed by an NYPD officer near his Queensbridge home in the early hours of February 21. The department claims the cruiser was moving at 35 to 39 mph on 40th Avenue, with lights on, as officers responded to a call, […]

At Transit Forum, Albanese, Allon, and Carrión Support Rational Tolls

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2013 | 5 Comments

Friday’s transit forum hosted by Transit Workers Union Local 100 and a coalition of rider advocacy groups offered an opportunity for a more more detailed discussion of transit policy than this year’s mayoral race has seen so far. While the candidates offered few specifics about how they would improve transit for the millions of New Yorkers who depend on […]

London Mayor: Get Bigshots Out of Cars, Onto Transit “Like Everybody Else”

By Stephen Miller | Feb 8, 2013 | 12 Comments

London Mayor Boris Johnson, whose entertaining quotes about Mike Bloomberg have been ricocheting around New York’s political circles today, could teach a thing or two to the candidates running for mayor here in NYC. Yesterday, “Boris from Islington” called in to a radio talk show with a recorded question for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about Parliament’s profligate […]

Mayoral Contenders Talk Transit, Part 3: John Liu

By Noah Kazis | May 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

Election Day is more than a year away, but the race to become the next mayor of New York City is well-underway. In the last two issues of its magazine, Reclaim, Transportation Alternatives has been asking the would-be mayors for their thoughts on transit (in the more recent interviews, one question about cycling was added). […]

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