Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Micah Kellner

Klein Backs Off Bill to Restore Flashing Lights on Select Bus Service

By Stephen Miller | Apr 11, 2014 | 10 Comments

Flashing lights on Select Bus Service vehicles are designed to help riders distinguish between pay-before-boarding SBS and pay-onboard local service. After years of operation without issue, Staten Island lawmakers exploited a minor state law to have the MTA turn off the lights 16 months ago. Bills in Albany to find a solution are stuck in […]

Albany Lawmakers Fail to Advance Bills on Careless Driving, Select Bus Lights

By Brad Aaron | Jul 1, 2013 | 5 Comments

Proponents of safer streets and a stronger MTA fared better than usual in Albany this year, securing speed cameras for NYC and scoring a tentative win on the transit lockbox — which now depends on Governor Cuomo’s signature to protect straphangers from budget raids by state lawmakers, including himself. However, legislators failed to pass bills that […]

Assembly Member Kellner Calls on Vance, Kelly to Enforce Street Safety Laws

By Ben Fried | Dec 9, 2010 | 5 Comments

On Tuesday, 21-year-old Jason King was killed by a truck driver while walking across Madison Avenue in the crosswalk. According to police, the driver overshot his destination, decided to back up, and ran over King in reverse, dragging him 30 feet before coming to a stop. NYPD decided not to charge the driver with anything […]

Paterson Signs Two Traffic Justice Bills Into Law

By Ben Fried and Noah Kazis | Aug 16, 2010 | 10 Comments

On Friday evening, New York Governor David Paterson signed two bills intended to make streets safer by giving law enforcement greater leeway to bring charges against reckless drivers. Diego Martinez and Hayley Ng were killed when a van left idling and unattended careened backwards into a group of pre-schoolers on a Chinatown sidewalk. The driver […]

Twenty-One NYC Reps Back Brodsky’s Student Fare Falsehood

By Noah Kazis | Feb 22, 2010 | 15 Comments

On Friday we noted that Assembly Member Richard Brodsky’s latest anti-transit argument — that "the actual cost of free and discounted student fares is close to zero" — doesn’t hold water. A letter from Brodsky addressed to MTA CEO Jay Walder calls for reinstating student MetroCards, laying blame for the program’s potential elimination at the […]

Electeds: Separated Bus Lanes Would Make East Side Plan Even Better

By Noah Kazis | Jan 22, 2010 | 4 Comments

From left to right: State Senator José Serrano, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, Assembly Member Jonathan Bing, Borough President Scott Stringer, and Council Member Jessica Lappin. East Side electeds continue to express support for the MTA and NYCDOT’s redesign of First and Second Avenues while pushing for a more complete corridor. In exchanges with Streetsblog this […]

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