Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Andrew Cuomo

De Blasio Deputy Anthony Shorris Ducks Questions on MTA Funding

By Stephen Miller | Apr 24, 2015 | 8 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s One New York plan, focused on the intersection of income inequality and the environment, doesn’t hesitate to make big recommendations to the MTA, like a new subway line. To pay for those plans, de Blasio will need Governor Cuomo and the state legislature to take action, but the mayor isn’t putting forward his own ideas […]

Cuomo Taps Syracuse Ex-Mayor Matt Driscoll, His “Go-To Guy,” for State DOT

By Stephen Miller | Apr 9, 2015 | 2 Comments

News came yesterday afternoon that Governor Andrew Cuomo is changing leadership at the state Department of Transportation, replacing Joan McDonald with former Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll. Cuomo canned McDonald, who’s been on the job since 2011, over a dispute about snow removal in Buffalo, according to Jimmy Vielkind of Capital New York. Driscoll might be familiar to Streetsblog […]

$100 Million in BRT Funding at Stake in Albany Budget Negotiations

By Stephen Miller | Mar 25, 2015 | 3 Comments

There’s $100 million for Bus Rapid Transit in the Assembly’s budget proposal, and advocates are working to ensure the funds emerge intact from closed-door negotiations with Governor Cuomo and the State Senate. The New York League of Conservation Voters, which has joined with Staten Island business interests to advocate for North Shore BRT, is asking supporters to contact lawmakers. […]

Fed Up With the Latest Fare Hike? Be Sure to Say #ThanksCuomo

By Stephen Miller | Mar 23, 2015 | 7 Comments

It’s easy to get annoyed with the MTA: Your train is slow and crowded, the station is dirty, the bus is late — and to top it off, you just got hit with another fare hike. You’re paying more for deteriorating service, and the only place to direct your anger is a faceless bureaucracy known as the […]

Factchecking Cuomo’s Revisionist History of NYC Road Pricing [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Feb 18, 2015 | 4 Comments

Andrew Cuomo is not going to seize the chance to lead New York City out of its hellish traffic congestion and fund key improvements to its transit system, judging by this tweet from New York Times reporter Thomas Kaplan: Cuomo doubts viability of congestion pricing: Last time, he says, “it went nowhere,” and nothing has […]

The Politics of NYC Toll Reform — What’s Different This Time?

By Stephen Miller | Feb 17, 2015 | 4 Comments

Next month’s MTA fare and toll increase will be the seventh hike in 15 years, noted “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz this morning. “But there is one traveler that hasn’t seen any change in the cost of travel,” he said. “And that’s the person that drives into Manhattan.” Schwartz was speaking at the public launch event for the Move NY […]

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