Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about John Liu

John Liu Says He Supports Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | | 38 Comments
Some actual news came out of this morning’s congestion pricing forum with London Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron, the one event that Streetsblog’s reporting team decided to skip this week. Queens City Council Member John Liu publicly stated that he supports congestion pricing. New York Times reporter Sewell Chan reports for the EmpireZone blog: Mr. Liu, […]

Sadik-Khan and Congestion Pricing: Ready for Prime Time

By Brad Aaron | | 30 Comments
 Janette Sadik-Khan has one week to go before taking over as the city’s new transportation commissioner. Not surprisingly, a public appearance Friday found her well prepared to push Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC congestion pricing program. Pressed into service for the Regional Plan Association’s day-long 17th Annual Regional Assembly, held at the swank Waldorf-Astoria, Sadik-Khan served as […]

Electeds React to Congestion Pricing

By Brad Aaron | | 19 Comments
Forty-eight hours in, here is what some elected officials are saying about PlaNYC and congestion pricing. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver: Well, I think it’s a very complicated issue, but, you know, we’ll need to look at it and discuss it with the mayor and discuss it with the members of the conference. The concept of […]

Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
  Gotham Gazette talked recently with Cecil Corbin-Mark, of West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), about environmental justice in Upper Manhattan. WE ACT formed in 1988 to fight the siting of a sewage treatment plant, a bus depot and a garbage transfer station in an area already bearing an undue share of the city’s environmental […]

DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan

By Brad Aaron | | 1 Comment
While acknowledging that casualties have dropped overall in recent years, safety advocates and government officials are calling on the DOT to establish measurable benchmarks for further reducing pedestrian injuries and deaths in the city, and want the agency to get moving on relatively minor improvements that would help meet those goals. At a hearing of […]

The New York City Parking Boom

By Josh Brustein | | 14 Comments
The first in a three-part series on New York City parking policy. Last December, in announcing the goals of his Long-Term Planning and Sustainability initiative, Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the terrifying specter of New York City commuters in the year 2030 stuck in an eight-hour "rush hour." This all-day traffic jam would become a reality, the […]
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