Council Member Laurie Cumbo Opposes Fulton Street Bus Lane
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Cumbo is fighting a transit improvement that will benefit tens of thousands of people in an area where about two-thirds of households don't own cars.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Laurie Cumbo
Fox and Cumbo Stake Out Diverging Positions on Congestion Pricing
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Council Member Laurie Cumbo -- whose district encompasses in Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, and parts of Crown Heights -- faces a spirited and well-funded primary challenge from Ede Fox, a former council staffer who also ran for the seat four years ago.
James and Cumbo Wilt Under Pressure, Oppose Clinton Ave Bikeway
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Last year, Public Advocate Tish James called on DOT to make protected bike lanes a standard feature of street redesigns, a stance she recently elaborated on in an interview with Streetsblog. In December, Council Member Laurie Cumbo stood with the family of Victoria Nicodemus, who was run over and killed on a Fort Greene sidewalk, at […]
Family of Victoria Nicodemus: Get Reckless Drivers Off NYC Streets
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The family of Victoria Nicodemus is calling on NYPD to do more to get reckless drivers off city streets. Nicodemus died last December when Marlon Sewell struck her with his SUV on a Fort Greene sidewalk, in a crash that injured two other pedestrians. Sewell, whose driving record reportedly includes incidents of unlicensed driving and speeding in school zones, […]
Ydanis Rodriguez Bill Would Let NYC’s Press Corps Park for Free
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In order to protect a #Transparent government we need to ensure media has the tools it needs to do their duty pic.twitter.com/IfuG6HpcLX — Ydanis Rodriguez (@ydanis) April 28, 2015 City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez thinks the city’s press corps needs a special break: He’s proposing legislation that would exempt drivers with press plates […]
13 State and City Elected Officials Sign On to Move NY Toll Reform
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The trickle of elected officials endorsing toll reform is starting to become more of a steady stream, and a look at who belongs to the coalition suggests that the politics of the Move NY plan are indeed different than the politics of congestion pricing. More than a dozen state and city elected officials announced today that they […]