Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Sheldon Silver

Let’s Hear About Mayor Bloomberg’s Transit Improvement Plan

By John Kaehny | Jan 11, 2008 | 5 Comments

Kevin Sheekey: Bring this man home to talk about the transit improvements congestion pricing will fund. Sixty Percent of New Yorkers support Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to impose a congestion pricing fee on traffic entering Manhattan’s Central Business District and spending the resulting money on transit improvements. According to the pollsters at Quinnipiac, that support hasn’t […]

Will Silver Defer to City Council on Congestion Pricing?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 17, 2007 | 29 Comments

While we weren’t looking, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver apparently had a change of heart on congestion pricing, and is reportedly now willing to go along with some version of the plan, as long as it is supported by City Council Democrats. This little bombshell comes courtesy of the Sun: The good news for Mayor Bloomberg […]

New Spin: Save the Mayor’s Congestion Plan by Modifying It

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 17, 2007 | 8 Comments

Congestion Mitigation Commission chairman Marc Shaw has a big job ahead of him. Newsflash from Crain’s New York: Congestion pricing is politically challenging: While I don’t think any Streetsblog reader will be shocked by that big scoop, there are still some interesting tidbits in here. The Traffic Mitigation Commission has a new mandate, Greg David […]

Spitzer Basks in Fare Freeze Afterglow

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2007 | 16 Comments

Liz Benjamin at The Daily Politics has been posting to-the-minute developments surrounding this morning’s fare freeze announcement from Governor Spitzer. Assemblyman Richard Brodsky says the move was a good first step, but that he wants other fare increases — including tolls — delayed as well. “We welcome the governor’s intervention, but there’s been no change […]

Silver: “We’re Not Doing Gansevoort Today.”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 23, 2007 | 10 Comments

From City Room: Speaker Sheldon Silver told City Room this morning that the Assembly would not act on the proposed West Side trash transfer station near Gansevoort Street in the meatpacking district, in his latest snub of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The station has been a priority for the mayor, who held a news conference […]

Silver Stalls Plan to Reduce Garbage Truck Traffic

By Brad Aaron | Oct 22, 2007 | 23 Comments

Under the city’s proposed waste management plan, more trash would be hauled by trains and barges. Reactivation of a garbage transfer station that the city considers crucial to its waste management plan — a plan it says will reduce truck traffic and allow more waste to be moved by barges and trains — is being […]

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