Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Richard Ravitch

Ravitch: The Next Mayor Must Get Serious About Congestion Pricing

By Stephen Miller | Mar 5, 2013 | 5 Comments

The next mayor will have to take the lead on transportation funding challenges that, while difficult to address in campaign speeches, are critical to the city’s future, former lieutenant governor and MTA chairman Richard Ravitch said today at a Fordham University infrastructure forum. Ravitch said that while raising fares to cover the MTA’s operating expenses is […]

Ravitch: Big Business, Cuomo Have Failed to Lead on Transportation

By Noah Kazis | Jan 13, 2012 | 5 Comments

New York’s infrastructure is dangerously underfunded and threatening to cripple the region’s economy, warned former lieutenant governor and MTA chairman Richard Ravitch in a speech on Thursday. Having taken the helm of the transit authority in 1979, at the system’s absolute nadir, Ravitch knows a thing or two about what it takes to bring the […]

Ravitch: Tolls on Every Major Road Needed, Just to Keep Transpo Afloat

By Noah Kazis | Nov 18, 2010 | 10 Comments

Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch opens his new report on transportation funding in his characteristically blunt fashion: “New York State currently lacks the revenues necessary to maintain its transportation system in a state of good repair, and the State has no credible strategy for meeting future needs.” It doesn’t get any cheerier from there. Faced with […]

Albany Chaos Open Thread

By Ben Fried | Feb 26, 2010 | 13 Comments

Photo: Times-Union With Governor Paterson’s political career flaming out in spectacular fashion, speculation is rampant that he might step down any day, thrusting Richard Ravitch into New York state’s executive office. Ravitch would inherit a budget crisis of epic proportions and a state capital that was already in utter disarray. The potential succession would also […]

Highlights from Today’s RPA Regional Assembly

By Ben Fried | Apr 17, 2009 | 7 Comments

The ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria is packed right now for the RPA’s 2009 Regional Assembly, where Richard Ravitch just accepted a lifetime achievement honor. Many luminaries from the worlds of transportation, planning, and politics are here, and I’ve got a few minutes to post some interesting exchanges from earlier in the day, so here […]

Under Sander, How “Bloated and Wasteful” Is the MTA?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 1, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Brad Aaron A Monday editorial from Crain’s questioned the wisdom of sacrificing MTA head Lee Sander as part of any transit rescue plan, as rumors swirl that Governor David Paterson wants Marc Shaw to return to the agency’s top spot. While making the seemingly obvious argument that maintaining a healthy transit system is vital […]

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