Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Elections

Last-Minute Voter Guide to the Public Advocate Run-Off

By Brad Aaron | | 5 Comments
Have you voted yet? The Democratic runoff election for public advocate is happening right now. Candidates Tish James and Dan Squadron each have impressive bona fides when it comes to livable streets. In his four years in Albany, Squadron took the lead in shepherding a number of street safety bills through the State Senate. StreetsPAC-endorsed […]

Big Winners on Primary Day: de Blasio and StreetsPAC

By Ben Fried | | 24 Comments
Yesterday, New York City Democrats chose the candidate who’s campaigned as the anti-Bloomberg. But on issues of traffic safety and surface transit, Bill de Blasio, despite some wavering, has pledged to build on the current administration’s progress while tackling the unfinished business of reforming the NYPD’s approach to traffic violence. And with several City Council […]

Bill Thompson Rents Ads-by-Bicycle to Woo Borough Park Voters

By Stephen Miller | | 2 Comments
Here’s an ironic twist for the mayoral candidate who all but ignored bicycling and walking in his transportation platform: Bill Thompson has rented mobile advertisements-by-bike, with yellow-vested, red-helmeted riders pedaling around Borough Park with Yiddish-language advertisements for his campaign. Despite Thompson’s anemic transportation policy, it’s a step up from the last time around. In 2009, he made […]

Still Undecided? Here’s Even More Transpo Info on the Mayoral Candidates

By Stephen Miller | | 1 Comment
In case Streetsblog’s guide to the mayoral candidates wasn’t exhaustive enough for you, here’s a truly epic compendium of where they all stand on transportation issues: CUNY’s University Transportation Research Center has put out a 145-page white paper [PDF] covering what the Democratic and Republican candidates have said about everything from the taxi of tomorrow and […]
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