Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ydanis Rodriguez

NYPD’s New Transportation Chief Talks Vision Zero at Council Hearing

By Stephen Miller | Feb 24, 2014 | 10 Comments

A marathon City Council hearing elicited some new details about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero agenda and brought out the raw emotion of New Yorkers mourning loved ones killed on city streets. The top item on the agenda at the joint transportation and public safety committee hearing was police enforcement of traffic laws. Newly-minted […]

Families of Traffic Violence Victims: Implement Vision Zero Now

By Stephen Miller | Feb 24, 2014 | 2 Comments

Nearly 100 people gathered yesterday afternoon on the steps of City Hall to launch Families for Safe Streets, a group of New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to traffic violence. Families for Safe Streets are demanding an accelerated timetable for the Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic fatalities within a decade. Speakers yesterday included […]

Uptown Electeds Ask Cuomo to Dedicate State Funds to Safer Streets

By Stephen Miller | Feb 11, 2014 | 1 Comment

A group of uptown elected officials, including City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez, sent a letter today to Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to include dedicated funds for bicycle and pedestrian projects in his executive budget [PDF]. The request echoes a call from street safety advocates and comes as the de Blasio administration must marshal resources […]

First Up for Ydanis Rodriguez: Override of NYPD Hit-and-Run Data Veto

By Stephen Miller | Jan 29, 2014 | 2 Comments

Today’s transportation committee meeting, the first chaired by Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, was short and sweet. The new chair opened with a statement outlining his goals for the 13-member committee, which minutes later unanimously passed an override of Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of a bill that would give the council more information about NYPD’s hit-and-run investigations. […]

Meet Your New Transportation and Land Use Committee Chairs

By Stephen Miller | Jan 22, 2014 | 6 Comments

It’s official: Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez is chair of the transportation committee, and Council Member David Greenfield will head up the powerful land use committee. While Rodriguez’s appointment has been greeted mostly with optimism by street safety advocates, Greenfield’s ascendance raises flags about whether the city will be able to get much-needed parking reforms through […]

Is Ydanis Rodriguez the Right Transpo Chair for Vision Zero?

By Ben Fried | Jan 16, 2014 | 14 Comments

Politicker is reporting that Upper Manhattan Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez has the inside track on securing the transportation committee chairmanship, which multiple sources have corroborated with Streetsblog. While the final decision won’t be announced until next week, sources say that council leadership will finalize the choice sooner than that, perhaps as early as today. The […]

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