Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Election 2013

Transportation Mainly a Pocketbook Issue at First Mayoral Debate

By Brad Aaron | Oct 16, 2013 | 1 Comment

Transportation didn’t get much airtime during last night’s debate between Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota, but the candidates did trade a few jabs. Over the course of the debate, which aired on WABC, the pair fielded a handful of questions on MTA fares, traffic enforcement, waste management, and development — with Lhota at one […]

The Lhota Platform: No Walking, No Biking, No Details on Street Safety

By Stephen Miller | Oct 11, 2013 | 50 Comments

It looks like Joe Lhota didn’t listen to Nicole Gelinas or Transportation Alternatives. Yesterday, Lhota released what his campaign billed as a “comprehensive policy book” [PDF], but New Yorkers interested in safer streets or better bicycling and walking are still awaiting much of any policy from the Republican candidate. After platitudes about how “an effective transportation system is a […]

Last-Minute Voter Guide to the Public Advocate Run-Off

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2013 | 5 Comments

Have you voted yet? The Democratic runoff election for public advocate is happening right now. Candidates Tish James and Dan Squadron each have impressive bona fides when it comes to livable streets. In his four years in Albany, Squadron took the lead in shepherding a number of street safety bills through the State Senate. StreetsPAC-endorsed […]

Priority Number One Under Joe Lhota’s DOT: Sync the Stop Lights

By Stephen Miller | Sep 12, 2013 | 28 Comments

On his radio show this morning, John Gambling asked Joe Lhota what he thinks about congestion pricing and transportation issues generally. Lhota spent the next three minutes (starting at 8:25) explaining that under his administration, DOT would focus on its “core competency.” Bus lanes didn’t make the cut. Bikes? Forget about it. “You’ve got to […]

NYC Bike-Share Subscribers Vastly Outnumber Weiner Voters

By Ben Fried | Sep 11, 2013 | 12 Comments

Here are a few fun facts about turnout in yesterday’s NYC primaries, framed in relation to the number of annual NYC bike-share members. As of primary day, there were 79,532 annual Citi Bike members. That’s equivalent to… about 30 percent of the votes amassed by the leading Democratic candidate, Bill de Blasio about 40 percent […]

Big Winners on Primary Day: de Blasio and StreetsPAC

By Ben Fried | Sep 11, 2013 | 24 Comments

Yesterday, New York City Democrats chose the candidate who’s campaigned as the anti-Bloomberg. But on issues of traffic safety and surface transit, Bill de Blasio, despite some wavering, has pledged to build on the current administration’s progress while tackling the unfinished business of reforming the NYPD’s approach to traffic violence. And with several City Council […]

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