Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about City Council

Bill Giving Cyclists a Head Start at LPIs Gets a Council Hearing Next Month

By David Meyer | Oct 24, 2016 | 27 Comments

Momentum is building for Council Member Carlos Menchaca’s bill to allow cyclists to proceed at traffic signals at the same time that pedestrians get the go-ahead. Intro 1072 would affect intersections with leading pedestrian intervals (LPIs) — signals that give pedestrians a head start to establish themselves in the crosswalk ahead of turning motorists. If the bill passes, cyclists can legally take the same […]

MTA: Don’t Ask Us to Do More for NYC Bus Riders

By David Meyer | Oct 6, 2016 | 44 Comments

Bus ridership in New York City has steadily declined since 2002, and bus riders put up with the slowest average speeds in the nation. But the MTA is in no hurry to fix the problem. At a City Council hearing this morning, MTA representatives touted the agency’s piecemeal efforts to improve bus service while pushing back […]

How Bad Is Bus Service on Your Route? Check This Web Site and See

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2016 | 10 Comments

Just how bad do bus riders have it in NYC? Today the transit advocates with the Bus Turnaround campaign launched a web site that lets you look up any route in the system and see how it performs. Spend a few minutes on the site and you’ll see why ridership has fallen 16 percent citywide since 2002. There’s […]

Three Bills Enhancing Bike Access to Buildings Get Council Approval

By David Meyer | Sep 14, 2016 | 16 Comments

This afternoon the City Council voted in favor of a package of bills aimed to improve bike access to commercial and residential buildings. The bills augment the 2009 Bicycle Access to Buildings Law, which required office building owners and managers to create bicycle access plans when tenants request them. That law had a number of limitations. For one, it only required access to freight […]

Six City Council Members Endorse de Blasio Trash Hauling Reforms

By Brad Aaron | Aug 23, 2016 | 2 Comments

A group of City Council members has endorsed Mayor de Blasio’s plan to reform the way commercial waste is collected. Antonio Reynoso, chair of the council’s sanitation and solid waste management committee, issued a statement praising the mayor’s proposal to cut the number of miles traveled by private carting fleets. Also signing on to the plan are council […]

Van Bramer + 24 Council Members Call on Albany to Allow More Speed Cams

By David Meyer | May 26, 2016 | 4 Comments

City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, 24 of his colleagues, and Public Advocate Letitia James are calling on the state legislature to expand NYC’s life-saving automated speed enforcement program. Assembly Bill 9861, sponsored by Deborah Glick, would allow New York City to expand its speed camera program to every school in the five boroughs. It would […]

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