Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Charles Schumer

We're in for a lot of empty trains — and economic catastrophe — if we don't get a better relief bill soon.
Photo: Patrick Cashin / Metropolitan Transportation Authoriity

New COVID Relief Bill Gives Zero Dollars to Sustainable Transportation

By Kea Wilson | Jul 28, 2020 | No Comments

Senate Republicans have released a new COVID-19 relief bill that allocates billions of dollars to air travel, but leaves zero dollars for the public transit systems that experts say are getting essential employees to work — and keeping our entire economy afloat. The Senate Republican’s Health, Economic Assistance, Liability protection and Schools (HEALS) Act allots $10 […]

No liquified natural gas engine for this baby! Photo: wildmeyers.com

DOT Lost Millions in Federal Funds for Staten Island Ferry

By Eve Kessler | May 15, 2020 | No Comments

The city blames the feds. The feds blame the city. But the bottom line? We lost out on more than $2 million in funding to make a Staten Island Ferry boat cleaner.

Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer must resist the urge to collaborate with Donald Trump on infrastructure. Trump photo via Gage Skidmore/Flickr; Schumer photo via NASA/Bill Ingalls/Wikimedia Commons

Do Not Collaborate With Hatred

By Ben Fried | Nov 14, 2016 | 157 Comments

Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer must refrain from making any overtures unless and until Trump conclusively renounces, with complete and utter finality, the racist, anti-democratic platform that he campaigned on.

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Democrats Who Embrace the Trump Infrastructure Plan Are Suckers

By Angie Schmitt and Ben Fried | Nov 10, 2016 | No Comments

As painful as it is to deal with the reality of a Donald Trump presidency, if you think highways and sprawl are a terrible mistake, the time to mobilize is now. One of the first things on Trump’s agenda, after dismantling Obama’s social and environmental legacy to the greatest extent possible, is a huge round of infrastructure spending. […]

Gas Tax Hike Will Help New Jersey Pay for New Rail Tunnel

By Charles Komanoff | Aug 13, 2015 | 15 Comments

To history’s list of epic negotiations, we may someday add the prospective deal to finance the Gateway Project between Newark’s and New York City’s Penn Stations. With two belligerent states, a disgraced Port Authority, and Amtrak and the federal government on the hook for Gateway’s $15 billion (and counting) expense, divvying up the cost will […]

DOT Scores TIGER Grants for Vision Zero and Rockaways Transpo Study

By Stephen Miller | Sep 10, 2014 | 9 Comments

City Hall and Senator Charles Schumer announced yesterday that NYC DOT had secured a $25 million federal grant for street safety and greenway projects in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Notably, the press release announcing the funding hailed street design improvements as a “critical” component of the city’s Vision Zero safety agenda. In addition, […]

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