Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about James Vacca

“Stop Means Stop”: Vacca Gives Thumbs-Up to Busy Red Light Cameras

By Brad Aaron | Aug 22, 2011 | 53 Comments

We’ll overlook the number of contortions performed by the Daily News to make today’s report on the success of red light cameras look like a “he said she said” story. It’s simply not a surprise when the city press corps assigns comparable weight to the wishes of motorists to break the law with impunity and […]

Vacca Watch: Transpo Chair Stays Strong on Speeding Enforcement

By Noah Kazis | Aug 2, 2011 | 5 Comments

City Council Transportation Chair James Vacca showed his safety supporter side at a press conference in the Bronx this morning. Standing with DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at the corner of the Grand Concourse and 165th Street to announce the installation of countdown pedestrian signals, Vacca had strong words for speeding motorists and endorsements for both […]

Vacca Watch: Transpo Chair a Big Booster of Parking Minimums

By Noah Kazis | Aug 1, 2011 | 3 Comments

The Bronx is booming. Over the last decade, no borough added more new residents or posted faster wage growth. The Bronx’s incredible resurgence even attracted national attention last week from USA Today, which turned to City Council Member James Vacca to explain the wave of residential development in the borough. Vacca used the opportunity to […]

Vacca Watch: Council Allows Parking Meter Rates to Rise to Dollar Per Hour

By Noah Kazis | Jul 1, 2011 | 4 Comments

After a grim day, it’s nice to be able to head into the holiday weekend with some good news. In a vote on Wednesday, the City Council allowed a proposed parking meter rate hike to move forward. The cost of parking on the street for an hour will increase from 75 cents to a dollar […]

Vacca Watch: At Budget Hearing, Council Calms Down, Focuses on Potholes

By Noah Kazis | Jun 3, 2011 | 10 Comments

Call it the case of the missing demagoguery. Yesterday’s City Council transportation budget hearing was less notable for what was said than what wasn’t. Attacks on the city’s proposed parking meter rate increase were largely absent, and the scapegoating of bike lanes and pedestrian plazas that has dominated recent hearings in James Vacca’s committee failed […]

Vacca Watch: Pre-Bike Hearing Chatter Between Transpo Chair Staffer, NBBL

By Noah Kazis | May 12, 2011 | 12 Comments

City Council Transportation Committee chair James Vacca has made headlines for his inquisitorial hearings on DOT’s bike and plaza programs. And it looks like his office was batting around ideas with street safety opponents before the first of those hearings last December. Email correspondence obtained by Streetsblog from Marty Markowitz’s office indicates that a Vacca […]

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