Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Richard Brodsky

Will Brodsky and Assembly Dems Back Up Their Enforcement Bluster?

By Ben Fried | Jul 2, 2008 | 2 Comments

A short item in yesterday’s Crain’s Insider notes that the hiring of 100 additional traffic agents is on hold due to belt-tightening in the city budget: An increase in the number of traffic agents, called for in PlaNYC, was cut from the city budget approved Sunday. The agents were to patrol new bus lanes and […]

Daily News to Congestion Pricing Opponents: “Your Fault”

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2008 | 15 Comments

With higher gas prices pushing drivers onto the city’s trains and buses, the Daily News today blasted Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Dems for passing up the billions of dollars that congestion pricing would have brought to MTA coffers. The trends prove that the theory of congestion pricing was valid: When the cost of driving […]

Driver’s Remorse: Tardy Brodsky Delayed by “Accident”

By Ben Fried | May 14, 2008 | 6 Comments

A tipster who attended last night’s MAS event about Moynihan Station sent us this delicious tidbit, in which some small measure of justice is served for Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky’s contribution to the killing of congestion pricing: Scheduled to appear at a panel discussion on the fate of Moynihan Station beginning at 6:30 pm Tuesday […]

Did Reporters Ever Dig Beneath Brodsky’s Populist Rhetoric?

By Ben Fried | Apr 24, 2008 | 12 Comments

This weekend, in a bizarre profile of congestion pricing’s alpha opponent, Richard Brodsky, the New York Times did little to counter the Westchester Assemblyman’s populist rhetoric. The piece, by reporter Joseph Berger, is full of odd editorializing, and appears to reprint some of Brodsky’s talking points part and parcel without attribution: Park Avenue co-op owners […]

Silver and Assembly Dems Defend Their “Democratic” Process

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2008 | 45 Comments

In the latest New York Observer, Azi Paybarah talks to state legislators and other insiders about how the congestion pricing non-vote went down on Monday. Conclusion: Assembly Democrats told Speaker Sheldon Silver what to do, not the other way around. And by killing the pricing bill behind closed doors, the thinking goes, the Democratic conference […]

Gene Russianoff on the MTA’s $17.5 Billion Hole

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2008 | 12 Comments

Gene Russianoff, senior attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, talks to Streetsblog about the future of transit funding without congestion pricing. Direct quotes are in quotation marks. Streetsblog: Without pricing, how will the MTA get funded? Russianoff: They currently have a proposed $29.5B capital plan. The vast majority is for stuff that absolutely has to be […]

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