Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Mark Levine

13 State and City Elected Officials Sign On to Move NY Toll Reform

By Stephen Miller | Apr 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

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 […]

Will City Hall and DOT Finally Commit to Car-Free Parks This Summer?

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2015 | 12 Comments

Spring is here, and that means the loops in Central Park and Prospect Park are increasingly crowded, with cyclists, joggers, and walkers squeezed by rush-hour traffic. Will the de Blasio administration finally make the parks car-free this summer? Last year, DOT repeated the same partially car-free regime in Central Park that the Bloomberg administration introduced in 2013. While the loop north of […]

Bus Lanes Coming to 125th Street in West Harlem This Summer

By Stephen Miller | Apr 3, 2015 | 15 Comments

Bus riders may not be stuck in crosstown traffic on 125th Street much longer. DOT plans to extend bus lanes from Lenox Avenue to Morningside Avenue this summer [PDF]. The news came last night at a meeting of the Community Board 9 transportation committee. “As far as CB 9 is concerned,” said board chair Rev. Georgette Morgan-Thomas, “I didn’t hear anything that […]

Levine Stands Up for Riverside Drive Road Diet Under Attack By CB 9

By Stephen Miller | Mar 6, 2015 | 33 Comments

A plan to calm traffic on a speeding-plagued stretch of Riverside Drive in West Harlem would be gutted if Community Board 9 members get their way, but Council Member Mark Levine, who represents the area, wants DOT to move ahead with the safety plan. “It’s all really sensible stuff that’s been succeeding in other parts […]

Mark Levine Launches Petition to Bring 125th Street Bus Lanes West of Lenox

By Ben Fried | Mar 3, 2015 | 3 Comments

You don’t see this level of political commitment to repurposing street space that often. Council Member Mark Levine has launched a petition calling on NYC DOT and the MTA to extend bus lanes on 125th Street west of Lenox Avenue. Select Bus Service on 125th was originally envisioned with river-to-river dedicated bus lanes, but neighborhood […]

Victims’ Families to Electeds: End the Obstruction of Safe Streets on the UWS

By Stephen Miller | Jan 22, 2015 | 17 Comments

Years of frustration with the leadership of Manhattan Community Board 7 boiled over at a traffic safety forum on the Upper West Side last night. Twice during the event, neighborhood residents who lost family members to traffic violence called on elected officials not to reappoint Dan Zweig, who has co-chaired CB 7’s transportation committee for […]

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