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Showing posts with label city council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label city council. Show all posts
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Transit should be controlled by transit riders

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I was listening to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Ben Kabak's new podcast , promoting his proposal to transfer control of the Ne...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

How carfree is your City Council district?

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One of the most eye-opening things I saw during the 2007-2008 congestion pricing debate was a series of fact sheets produced by the Tri-Sta...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Better subway station names

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Back in October, City Council Transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez argued that some of our identically-named subway stations really are con...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Fifth Borough?

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On my post about Staten Island, chrismealy commented that we could trade it for Bergen Neck, the peninsula in New Jersey just north of it. ...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Staten Island and our goals

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This summer I went to Staten Island for the first time in several years. There are some things I like about it, but I don't go there ve...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

What I want from a mayor or city council member

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After I laid out the ways that Christine Quinn has disappointed me as a transportation and livable streets advocate, I got a couple of emai...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Christine Quinn's disappointing record on transportation

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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is running for mayor of New York. In theory I like the idea of the city's first lesbian mayor, and...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Great Curbside Land Grab of 1947-1952

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In previous posts I've talked about how it was illegal to park your car overnight in New York City in the 1940s, how car ownership got ...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Gridlock Sam's plan is not fair or equitable

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I've got objections to "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz's plan to toll the East River Bridges and use some of the money to reduce ...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Expanding the constituency for transit and livable streets

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I've talked before about why we need walkable, transit-oriented suburbs . One of the big reasons is the cycle: the easier it is to take...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

The Port Authority's toll hike is blatantly unfair

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The big news the past few days has been the Port Authority's fare and toll hike plan. Many people are upset about it, but for me the PA...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

You can't not have minimum parking requirements

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I've been against minimum parking requirements for a long time. These requirements, embedded in the zoning code, have a host of proble...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Quantitative bike lane evaluation

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As I've made clear, I am very much in favor of the Prospect Park West bike lane. In my view, the city has demonstrated that it has impr...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Our next big goal

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You might have any number of goals for New York City's transportation policy in the near future. Let's say you want to cut somethin...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Snow, politics and the media

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So there's been a lot of snow lately. There was one big blizzard that started on Boxing Day and dumped more than a foot of snow on the ...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Why 181st Street matters

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I've long argued that the concept of "BRT" attempting to mimic subway lines is an inefficient and counterproductive strategy. ...
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Monday, January 4, 2010

The next City Council transportation chair

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The News reports (thanks, Streetsblog !) that the New York City Council will be voting on its leadership positions by the end of January. ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Teachers Take Over Maria Baez's District

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The Bronx district of Councilmember Maria Baez is pretty poor, with 72% of households earning less than $40,000 a year. Most of it is well...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Who Will Save the Z?

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Our friends at the Empire State Transportation Alliance have conducted another action protesting the planned MTA cuts: a mock funeral for t...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

Gioia Calls for Midtown Tunnel Bus

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A tipster pointed me to an email from City Council Member Eric Gioia, who represents western Queens, including Long Island City. Gioia cal...
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