Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Albany Reform

Proof That Congestion Pricing Supporters Do Exist in Queens

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 25, 2008 | 15 Comments

Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee Chair Mike Heffron sends along this report from last night’s traffic commission hearing at York College in Jamaica, Queens. No huge surprise, Assemblymen Andrew Hevesi and Rory Lancman both came out against congestion pricing, citing not enough evidence it would work and demanding transit improvements without explaining where the money would […]

Disconnect Between Pols and People at Brooklyn Traffic Hearing

By Ben Fried | Jan 25, 2008 | 27 Comments

On balance, speakers at last night’s traffic mitigation hearing in Brooklyn delivered a pro-pricing message — a strong one if you discount the politicians who said their piece and left the auditorium before their constituents got to the mic. About 60 people came to Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights and weighed in on the […]

Motorists Dominate UES Parking Workshop

By Brad Aaron | Jan 24, 2008 | 16 Comments

Streetsblog commenter BicyclesOnly attended last night’s DOT neighborhood parking workshop at Temple Israel on E. 75th St. Here is his account (originally posted here): I think I was the only one present (some young and idealistic-looking DoT staff excepted) who did not own a car. I heard so many bad arguments for bad policy that […]

Brodsky Taxes Milk! Toll Plazas Will be Named After Marc Shaw!

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 11, 2008 | 23 Comments

With its report released the day before, there wasn’t a lot of news to be found at yesterday’s meeting of the Congestion Mitigation Commission. There was, however, some good political theater and, with the deadline to produce a recommendation approaching, influential commissioners began staking out their positions. The day’s agenda was to discuss the four […]

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 […]

Russianoff and Schneiderman Map the MTA’s Road to ‘Ruin’

By Brad Aaron | Nov 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

In today’s Daily News, Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign and State Senator Eric Schneiderman examine how the MTA ended up the most debt-ridden transit system in the United States, and urge state leaders to chart a new course. The governor must prevent next year’s state budget from being a carbon copy of the budgets […]

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