Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Melissa Mark-Viverito

Council Calls on de Blasio to Double “Great Streets” Redesign Funds

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
The City Council wants Mayor de Blasio to double funding for DOT capital projects to overhaul the city’s most dangerous streets and save more lives, faster. At a council budget hearing last week, transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez called for additional funds in the executive budget for the “Great Streets” program. As of now the mayor’s budget proposes $250 million […]

Will de Blasio and Mark-Viverito Back Effort to Fully Fund Vision Zero?

By Brad Aaron and Ben Fried | | 7 Comments
City Hall will have to double its commitment to street redesigns that prioritize safety in order to dramatically reduce traffic deaths on NYC’s most dangerous streets in our lifetimes, advocates say. That level of spending could be accomplished with a relatively small shift in resources in the city’s total capital budget. Transportation Alternatives has drafted a […]

Select Bus Service Launches on 125th Street

By Stephen Miller | | 5 Comments
On Sunday, Select Bus Service launched on a route that stretches from 125th Street in Harlem to LaGuardia Airport. Public officials marked the occasion — the first SBS route to debut during the de Blasio era — at a Harlem press conference today. With off-board fare collection and dedicated bus lanes (on part of the […]

With Mark-Viverito as Speaker, Who Will Chair Transportation Committee?

By Stephen Miller | | 14 Comments
Almost immediately after Melissa Mark-Viverito was elected city council speaker yesterday, she formed the council’s rules committee, installing her progressive caucus co-leader Brad Lander as its chair. Lander, like Mark-Viverito a livable streets stalwart who has also championed overhauling many of the council’s procedures, is now in a prime position to help pick who will […]
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