Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Interviews

Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 1

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 17, 2007 | 27 Comments

Too many unanswered questions. Among New York State Assembly Democrats, that has been one of the most frequent criticisms of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for a three-year congestion pricing pilot project in New York City. Last month, Lower Manhattan Assembly member Deborah Glick said that she and her colleagues were “confronted with a dearth of information […]

Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 20, 2007 | 20 Comments

Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron Janette Sadik-Khan: Four days. Streetsblog: Left in the legislative session? JSK: Yeah, well, maybe four days left, maybe more days. August in Albany. What can be better? SB: (Laughing) So, let’s start with something other than congestion pricing. How […]

86th Street: The Congestion Pricing Battle Line

By Glenn McAnanama | May 29, 2007 | 10 Comments

The 86th Street border of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed congestion pricing zone is emerging as the northern front of an increasingly intense political battle. Last week, Upper East Side City Council Member Jessica Lappin worried that congestion pricing would bring a "crush of cars circling around 86th Street looking for parking spots." Over on the West […]

Gene Russianoff on the MTA’s Day of Reckoning

By John Kaehny | May 4, 2007 | 9 Comments

Gene Russianoff, Senior Attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, has been New York City’s leading transit advocate for decades. Streetsblog recently spoke with Gene about the MTA’s impending fiscal crises and other transit issues. SB: How real is this predicted fiscal crises? How does it compare to past crises? GR: Start with the numbers. They have […]

StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 20, 2007 | No Comments

Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking Running time: 6 minutes 37 seconds "I don’t see why people have to pay market rents to live in a neighborhood but the cars should live rent-free. In New York you have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. You’ve got your priorities exactly […]

Streetfilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 2, 2007 | No Comments

Sam Schwartz, aka "Gridlock Sam," is best-known to many New Yorkers through his Daily News column about the city’s quotidian traffic woes. Schwartz is the president and CEO of Sam Schwartz LLC, a traffic planning and engineering firm that has worked on projects including the JFK AirTrain, the IKEA project in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and […]

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