Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Martin Malave Dilan

State Senate on Transit Funding Meltdown: It Wasn’t Us

By Brad Aaron | Dec 14, 2009 | 18 Comments

After omitting bridge tolls from last spring’s transit funding package, then raiding the "piggy bank" to the tune of $143 million, Albany’s neglect of the MTA has left millions of transit-dependent New Yorkers in the lurch. Yet lawmakers have shown no inclination to get to work patching the agency’s ever-widening budget hole, much less coming […]

The Latest in Piecemeal Transit Funding

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2009 | 4 Comments

State legislators are about to head home for the Easter and Passover holiday, leaving transit riders to twist in the wind a while longer without an MTA funding plan in place. Martin Malave Dilan, chair of the State Senate’s transportation committee, gave Politicker’s Jimmy Vielkind one last debriefing before the legislative break: "We were really […]

The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 2

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 30, 2008 | 21 Comments

Biggest Setback: After being approved by an unprecedented civic coalition, the mayor and New York City Council, congestion pricing — the one policy measure that simultaneously reduces traffic congestion while raising money for mass transit and livable streets — died in an Albany backroom without even a vote. Lobbyists of the Year: Walter McCaffrey and […]