Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about William Thompson

Bill Thompson Rents Ads-by-Bicycle to Woo Borough Park Voters

By Stephen Miller | Sep 10, 2013 | 2 Comments

Here’s an ironic twist for the mayoral candidate who all but ignored bicycling and walking in his transportation platform: Bill Thompson has rented mobile advertisements-by-bike, with yellow-vested, red-helmeted riders pedaling around Borough Park with Yiddish-language advertisements for his campaign. Despite Thompson’s anemic transportation policy, it’s a step up from the last time around. In 2009, he made […]

Thompson Puts Cars First in Transportation Platform

By Stephen Miller | Aug 16, 2013 | 15 Comments

It looks like Bill Thompson didn’t get the word about how well bike lanes and pedestrian plazas are polling. This morning, at a Staten Island bus depot that is most easily accessed by car, Thompson got in line behind Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio, the other leading mayoral candidates, by unveiling his transportation platform. […]

At Forum, Mayoral Candidates Back Bus Lanes, Shy Away From Funding

By Stephen Miller | Jun 19, 2013 | 50 Comments

At a mayoral forum on transportation this morning, the first since a February event hosted by Transport Workers Union Local 100, eight candidates offered ideas on how they would improve the city’s road and transit network. For the most part, the candidates were eager to support buses, quick to get agitated about bike lanes, and short […]

At Transit Forum, Albanese, Allon, and Carrión Support Rational Tolls

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2013 | 5 Comments

Friday’s transit forum hosted by Transit Workers Union Local 100 and a coalition of rider advocacy groups offered an opportunity for a more more detailed discussion of transit policy than this year’s mayoral race has seen so far. While the candidates offered few specifics about how they would improve transit for the millions of New Yorkers who depend on […]

NYers Not Sold on Notion That Livable Streets Are Wrecking Economy

By Brad Aaron | Nov 5, 2009 | 11 Comments

Here’s a chart breaking down New York Times exit poll results from the mayoral election. What sticks out to us is not so much that 3 percent of voters rated transportation as the "one issue" that mattered most to them, since many who participated could care a great deal about transportation and you wouldn’t know […]

The Third Term

By Ben Fried | Nov 4, 2009 | 9 Comments

For the next four years, Mike Bloomberg will be joined in citywide office by Democrats Bill de Blasio and John Liu. Mike Bloomberg defeated Bill Thompson yesterday to claim a third term as New York City mayor, but no one except the mayor’s own staff is calling the five point margin a victory for the […]

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