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Showing posts with label state senate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label state senate. Show all posts
Sunday, September 2, 2012

Your Guide to New York State's Judicial Nomination Process

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As I mentioned recently, there were two bizarre judicial rulings in the New York State Supreme Court setting back transportation reform. On...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

The high cost of cheap on-street parking

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Last week I promised you another explanation for the crazy law that was passed by the New York State Legislature, essentially outlawing sm...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Why do so many people care about curbside buses?

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In my post about the crazy law passed last week by the New York State legislature to (over)regulate private curbside buses in the city, I as...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Who's sticking up for the bus riders?

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Today the New York State Legislature killed bus innovation in New York City. What are we going to do about it? Yes, you read that right. ...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The wacky anti-bus campaign

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I'm really starting to get sick of this shit. Look, transit is good, right? The easier and cheaper it is to get to Boston or DC by bu...
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Saturday, April 7, 2012

The state budget's bogus parity

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Every once in a while the debate over the New York State budget turns briefly to transportation, and we see where our leaders have their pri...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Mike Gianaris and Marge Markey and Joe Crowley will again stab straphangers in the back

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Transportation Alternatives sent around a Media Round-Up to their members - and I am one - saying that the Daily News editorial on the lat...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

If I had 10,000,000,000...

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... I would buy out John Aston and every one of the current taxi medallion owners who believe they've made an investment in "the ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Bus capacity background, again

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In my last post , I discussed the brewing storm over bus capacity in Manhattan. It wasn't the first time: in 2008 I wrote that the Linc...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Working Families Party wants the MTA to stop defunding itself

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Streetsblog reports that the "Working Families" Party is at it again. After being completely AWOL in the congestion pricing debat...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

A Senate candidate worth fighting for

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You may remember that two years ago the State Assembly killed a plan to charge drivers for using the "free" East River bridges - ...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Brilliant but lazy

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The key thing to know about the word "but" is that it really matters whether a given phrase comes before the "but" or af...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Senate 12: Exchanging bad for worse

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Gay marriage advocates have something to cheer about, but transit advocates are facing unpleasant prospects in Senate District 12. George O...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

They're not in Woodhaven's corner

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This breaks my heart. I am totally serious. I really like Woodhaven: it's a cute little neighborhood tucked away under the el, with a ...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Bad transit funding frames

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When you think of the word "bailout," what comes to mind? If you're a real old salt, you might think of a leaky boat (or a goo...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

State Senate quintiles

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This week New York voters re-elected most of their City Council members, and elected a few new ones, with most of them not having taken muc...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

"Atlantic Yards" project will shrink the yards themselves

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Since we're on the subject of central rail terminals and track capacity... Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project was supposed to ben...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Fairness for upstate

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One of the worst aspects of the current plan to properly fund the MTA is that out of a concern for parity and "fairness" to upstat...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Getting Something Together

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In my last blog post, I reprinted a press release from the Empire State Transportation Alliance, one of the few groups holding actions direc...