Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Elections

Q Poll: Support for Cycling a Vote Winner for Mayoral Candidates

By Ben Fried | May 22, 2013 | 5 Comments

Mayoral candidates stand to gain votes if they support increased bicycling, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll. The last question of the poll, which surveyed 1,082 NYC voters via land lines and cell phones the week of May 14-20, asked: “If a candidate for Mayor supports – encouraging increased use of bicycles, would you be more likely […]

City Council Candidates on the Issues: Andrew Cohen, District 11

By Stephen Miller | May 21, 2013 | 5 Comments

Streetsblog continues our series on City Council candidates with a look at the race for District 11 in the Bronx, which covers Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, and Norwood. The seat has been held by Oliver Koppell, who is term-limited, since 2002. Four Democratic Party candidates are vying for the seat: Andrew Cohen, an attorney who also serves […]

Quinn Says She Would Aim to Cut Traffic Fatalities in Half by 2021

By Stephen Miller | May 15, 2013 | 40 Comments

Mayoral candidate Christine Quinn said today that if elected, she would appoint an interagency “Safe Streets Working Group” tasked with cutting traffic fatalities in half by 2021. The working group, featuring “high level staff” from DOT, NYPD, City Planning, and the Department of Health, would coordinate automated enforcement, police enforcement, street design, and traffic calming […]

StreetsPAC to Send Out Its First Candidate Questionnaire

By Brad Aaron | May 9, 2013 | 7 Comments

NYC’s new safe streets political action committee is set to send out its first candidate questionnaire. StreetsPAC has put together a 7-page doc that summarizes the committee’s agenda and solicits candidate responses to questions on traffic enforcement, transit, the use of street space, and more. It’s incredibly thorough, and should go a long way toward separating […]

At Mayoral Forum, Albanese Stands Out With Reality-Based PPW Response

By Brad Aaron | May 8, 2013 | 12 Comments

The question of the Prospect Park West bike lane, posed by WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein at the Park Slope mayoral forum on Monday, may have been intended as red meat. But it’s also a serviceable litmus test. If a candidate can’t get behind one of the city’s premiere cycling facilities, which grew from the grassroots and […]

I Bike, I Walk, And I Vote: StreetsPAC Launches With Focus on Council Races

By Stephen Miller | Apr 25, 2013 | 7 Comments

This morning, a group of livable streets advocates gathered in the Madison Square pedestrian plaza to announce the formation of StreetsPAC, a political action committee to put street safety front and center in New York City’s 2013 election cycle. Many of the names behind the effort should be familiar to Streetsblog readers, including Aaron Naparstek, Streetsblog’s founding […]

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