Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michelle Schimel

Support for Pricing From Nassau Dem Michelle Schimel

By Brad Aaron | Apr 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

While many of her colleagues are hoping to avoid taking a stand on congestion pricing by urging Speaker Sheldon Silver to kill the plan without a vote, Nassau County Assembly Democrat Michelle Schimel has come out strongly in favor with an editorial in the Great Neck Record: For more than 300,000 Long Island residents, the […]

Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 18 Comments

Council member Lew Fidler delivers his Tax & Tunnel plan to the Commission. Spencer Wilking reports: The city’s traveling road show of community advocates, local politicians and concerned residents, otherwise known as New York City’s Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, stopped in Brooklyn Thursday night as part of its whirlwind seven county tour. At the hearing […]