Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Elections

Let’s Hear More About Transit Policy That NYC’s Next Mayor Can Control

By Ben Fried | Mar 25, 2013 | 4 Comments

Four of the Democratic mayoral candidates appeared on MSNBC with Chris Hayes Sunday morning, and for a short while the subject turned to transit. About two minutes into this segment, Hayes prompted former City Council member Sal Albanese to discuss his proposal to band together with other mayors to lobby Washington for more transit funding. […]

At Transit Forum, Albanese, Allon, and Carrión Support Rational Tolls

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2013 | 5 Comments

Friday’s transit forum hosted by Transit Workers Union Local 100 and a coalition of rider advocacy groups offered an opportunity for a more more detailed discussion of transit policy than this year’s mayoral race has seen so far. While the candidates offered few specifics about how they would improve transit for the millions of New Yorkers who depend on […]

St. Louis Mayoral Contender Lewis Reed Hopes to Bike to City Hall

By Ben Fried | Feb 20, 2013 | 7 Comments

Via the Kansas Cyclist, here’s a campaign ad from St. Louis mayoral hopeful Lewis Reed that would seem strangely inconceivable in NYC’s current political climate. Reed, currently president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen (the equivalent of being City Council speaker in NYC), is challenging three-term incumbent Francis Slay in a primary election coming […]

How the Mayoral Candidates Stack Up on Safe Streets for Biking, So Far

By Ben Fried | Feb 13, 2013 | 16 Comments

Matt Flegenheimer got five leading mayoral candidates on the record about bike lanes for a story in the Times today, and one of the encouraging things about it is that you can start to see the candidates running against each other (and not just the three-term, lame duck incumbent) on bike policy. It’s still early […]

With Joe Lhota’s Impending Mayoral Run, Transit Can’t Be Ignored in 2013

By Ben Fried | Dec 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

A few quick thoughts on the news that MTA Chair Joe Lhota is going to leave the agency at the end of week to clear the way for a mayoral run… There are basically two angles to consider. One is that the MTA is about to lose its chief executive, yet again, after a brief […]

Why Traffic Deaths Are More Common in Red States Than in Blue States

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 20, 2012 | No Comments

Public interest journalist Stuart Silverstein at FairWarning.org has uncovered the fact that red states (defined as those that went for Mitt Romney in the last election) have higher traffic fatality rates than blue states (those that went for Barack Obama). The correlation is striking, Silverstein says, but he’s at a loss to explain it: The […]

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