Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ydanis Rodriguez

It’s Time to Think Big to Turn Around Lousy Bus Service in NYC

By David Meyer | Jul 20, 2016 | 29 Comments

Bus service in New York is getting worse and losing riders, and unless policy makers step in and make systemwide improvements, those trends may accelerate in a vicious cycle. New York can turn things around, advocates say, with a suite of policies to get buses moving quickly and reliably again. Today a coalition of transit advocates unveiled […]

Rodriguez: Wouldn’t DOT Like More Vision Zero Funding? Trottenberg: Nope

By David Meyer | May 18, 2016 | 11 Comments

The de Blasio administration continues to resist the City Council’s efforts to devote more resources to street redesigns that will save lives. Speaking at a transportation committee hearing yesterday, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said DOT has sufficient funding in the city budget to redesign, within six to seven years, the 292 dangerous intersections where most fatal traffic crashes occur. That […]

Car-Free Day Doesn’t Mean Much Without New Policies to Reduce Traffic

By Ben Fried | Apr 28, 2016 | 16 Comments

New York City is America’s car-free capital, home to eight and half million people, most of whom get around without owning a car. When so many of us already live car-free, what more can come out of an event like last Friday’s Car-Free Day? There are basically two ways an awareness-raising event like Car-Free Day can go. It can […]

Scenes From NYC’s First “Car Free Day”

By David Meyer | Apr 22, 2016 | 77 Comments

New York City’s first “Car Free Day,” the brainchild of City Council Transportation Chair Ydanis Rodriguez, is underway. On the streets, there are three car-free zones in Manhattan in effect from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: blocks abutting Washington Square Park, Wadsworth Avenue between 173rd and 177th Streets, and Broadway from Union Square to Madison Square. While the […]

Rodriguez on Car Free NYC: Climate Change Is a Call to Action on Transit

By David Meyer | Apr 18, 2016 | 28 Comments

This Friday is Earth Day, and to mark the occasion, City Council Transportation Chair Ydanis Rodriguez is spearheading the “Car Free NYC” initiative. The idea is to raise awareness of the connections between climate change, vehicle emissions, and access to transit. More than three dozen large employers have signed on to encourage their workers to walk, bike, or ride […]

NYPD on Parking Perks for Press: Do as We Say, Not as We Do

By David Meyer | Apr 4, 2016 | 18 Comments

The City Council’s attempt to return parking privileges to the New York press corps faces opposition, ironically enough, from the New York City Police Department. Intro. 779, sponsored by transportation committee chair Ydanis Rodriguez and 34 of his colleagues, would allow people with press-designated license plates from New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut to “park where parking or standing […]

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