Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michael Bloomberg

Jon Orcutt Appointed as DOT Senior Policy Advisor

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 11, 2007 | 8 Comments

File under: Totally unimaginable just a few months ago. Following the appointment of Bruce Schaller as Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability, Jon Orcutt is DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s second high profile hire since taking over the agency. Stay tuned for one or two more big appointments. Kate Slevin will be taking over as Tri-State […]

Thank Goodness for Dear, Glorious Leader Sheldon Silver

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

Almost exactly one year ago, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser wrote a great little essay for the New York Sun’s op/ed page that asked the question, Does New York Suffer From A Soviet Traffic System?: The Soviet approach to markets set prices at some controlled price, and then let shortages ensue. Under this system, millions wasted […]

112,000 Less Cars

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2007 | 33 Comments

Here are more points from Friday’s PlaNYC Hearing: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff estimated congestion pricing would remove 112,000 cars from city streets on a daily basis, with 94,000 would-be drivers switching to transit, in what he said would be "Probably the single greatest mode shift anywhere." DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller said that whatever edge […]

From a Sea of Green, Bloomberg Works a Tough Room

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2007 | 24 Comments

Flanked by dozens, if not hundreds, of citizen spectators in bright green "I Breathe and I Vote" t-shirts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city staffers this morning made the case for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program to a largely hostile cadre of state Assembly members. Seated alongside ten colleagues in the auditorium of the New […]

First Impressions of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC Testimony…

By John Kaehny | Jun 8, 2007 | 14 Comments

Did you watch Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing testimony before the New York State legislature? If so, what did you think? Here is the initial impression of John Kaehny, former executive director of Transportation Alternatives: Mayor Bloomberg’s advocacy for congestion pricing and public transit to a State assembly panel was the most amazing thing I have […]

PlaNYC Testimony Live on NY1 Right Now

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 8, 2007 | 16 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg is presenting his plan for a greater greener New York at the first in a series of Assembly hearings today, where he is pitching his congestion pricing plan, among other aspects of his proposal for a sustainable city. DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller got a nice introduction at the start. Watch it live […]

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