Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Regional Plan Association

Sadik-Khan: We’re Putting the Square Back in Madison Square

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DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan gave a brief, clear-eyed overview of the city’s post-pricing transportation agenda today at the Regional Plan Association’s 18th Annual Regional Assembly. Speaking at a panel discussion called "Making Cars Pay Their Way," she rattled off a list of projects in the works, including some public space improvements that are certain to […]

Best View Yet of Potential Transit Improvements

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View an enlarged version of this map Together at last: Pre-congestion pricing short-term transit enhancements and MTA capital projects in one map! The graphic comes courtesy of the Regional Plan Association, which made the map for an insert touting pricing [PDF] placed in the Legislative Gazette this Monday by Environmental Defense, TWU Local 100, and […]

Sander Makes the Case for MTA Capital Plan and Pricing

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A map presented by Lee Sander shows routes of short-term transit improvements (slide available in this PDF). MTA chief Elliott "Lee" Sander delivered the first-ever "State of the MTA" address this morning, using the agency’s 40th anniversary to urge the enactment of the full $29.5 billion, five-year capital plan unveiled last week. Speaking before a […]

Proof That Congestion Pricing Supporters Do Exist in Queens

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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 […]