Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Mark Levine

Levine to DOT: The Time Is Now for Amsterdam Avenue Protected Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Jul 29, 2015 | 12 Comments

City Council Member Mark Levine sent a letter today urging Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg to put a protected bike lane on Amsterdam Avenue. Levine’s district encompasses much of the Upper West Side north of W. 95th Street. Calling on DOT to act, he pointed to unsafe conditions on Amsterdam, attendant wrong-way cycling on the Columbus Avenue southbound protected […]

Levine and Rodriguez Press DOT to Implement West Harlem Bus Lanes ASAP

By Stephen Miller | Jul 16, 2015 | 3 Comments

Transit advocates and Upper Manhattan elected officials gathered this morning at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 125th Street to urge DOT to extend bus lanes on 125th Street to West Harlem as soon as possible. The city installed bus lanes on 125th east of Lenox Avenue last spring, and DOT says they will be extended west to […]

Will CB 9 Take Its Cues From a Denny Farrell Rant Against a Safer Broadway?

By Stephen Miller | Jul 10, 2015 | 53 Comments

Council Member Mark Levine and the local precinct commander spoke in support of a traffic safety plan [PDF] for a deadly stretch of Broadway last night at a Manhattan Community Board 9 transportation committee meeting. Then Denny Farrell, chair of the New York State Assembly’s powerful ways and means committee, let loose with a nonsensical rant against the plan. The project […]

13 State and City Elected Officials Sign On to Move NY Toll Reform

By Stephen Miller | Apr 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

The trickle of elected officials endorsing toll reform is starting to become more of a steady stream, and a look at who belongs to the coalition suggests that the politics of the Move NY plan are indeed different than the politics of congestion pricing. More than a dozen state and city elected officials announced today that they […]

Will City Hall and DOT Finally Commit to Car-Free Parks This Summer?

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2015 | 12 Comments

Spring is here, and that means the loops in Central Park and Prospect Park are increasingly crowded, with cyclists, joggers, and walkers squeezed by rush-hour traffic. Will the de Blasio administration finally make the parks car-free this summer? Last year, DOT repeated the same partially car-free regime in Central Park that the Bloomberg administration introduced in 2013. While the loop north of […]

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