Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michael Primeggia

Wanted: A New Traffic Boss for New York City

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 2, 2009 | 21 Comments

You won’t have Primeggia to kick around anymore. The New York City Department of Transportation is posting a job ad seeking a new Deputy Commissioner of Traffic Operations. That’s because Michael Primeggia is retiring. After 30+ years in city government, New York City’s chief traffic engineer, a man who referred to the city’s streets as […]

Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 20, 2007 | 20 Comments

Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron Janette Sadik-Khan: Four days. Streetsblog: Left in the legislative session? JSK: Yeah, well, maybe four days left, maybe more days. August in Albany. What can be better? SB: (Laughing) So, let’s start with something other than congestion pricing. How […]

DOT: Bergtraum to CUNY, Primeggia to Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 12, 2007 | 5 Comments

Department of Transportation First Deputy Commissioner Judith Bergtraum, a top aide to former commissioner Iris Weinshall, is leaving DOT for a job at the City University of New York where Weinshall is now a vice chancellor. As first reported by the Daily News’ Elizabeth Benjamin, DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan just returned from a quick trip […]

CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the “Bicycle Problem”

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 12, 2007 | 39 Comments

Community Board 6 was grumpy about the idea of bike lanes on 9th Street. At last night’s Community Board 6 meeting in Brooklyn DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia’s "One Way? No Way!" proposal was shot down decisively, the Grand Army Plaza bike and ped improvements passed unanimously, and the 9th Street pedestrian safety, traffic-calming and […]

Primeggia’s One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 6, 2007 | 3 Comments

DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia on March 15: "I know that two-way streets are less safe." A couple of weeks ago, following the epic, 650-person "One Way? No Way!" public meeting in Park Slope, Brooklyn Papers columnist Gersh Kuntzman accused his fellow Park Slopers of being "closed-minded, anti-intellectual whiners" for rejecting DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael […]

A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | No Comments

All across the city neighborhood groups are coming together to re-envision and plan their own communities. In the last few months we’ve seen valuable community-planning processes taking place in Hell’s Kitchen, the Meatpacking District and, to a certain extent, along Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. People aren’t waiting around for real estate developers or city […]

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