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City Council Lets Albany and NYPD Off the Hook for Traffic Violence
City Council Speaker Chris Quinn and Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca finally responded to the deaths of Amar Diarrassouba and Raizel and Nachman Glauber today, after devoting their energy earlier in the week to keeping municipal parking underpriced.
March 8, 2013
What City Do Christine Quinn and James Vacca Represent?
In February, no fewer than nine people were killed by drivers while walking in NYC, according to data compiled by Streetsblog. The victims included five seniors and a 6-year-old child. Two victims were on the sidewalk when they were killed. Another was struck by an NYPD officer in a crash that police refuse to explain to the victim's family.
March 7, 2013
At Transit Forum, Albanese, Allon, and Carrión Support Rational Tolls
Friday's transit forum hosted by Transit Workers Union Local 100 and a coalition of rider advocacy groups offered an opportunity for a more more detailed discussion of transit policy than this year's mayoral race has seen so far. While the candidates offered few specifics about how they would improve transit for the millions of New Yorkers who depend on trains and buses, clear differences emerged, especially on the question of how to increase funding for the debt-ridden MTA.
February 25, 2013
Quinn Says She Still Supports Congestion Pricing
After some pressing from Capital political reporter Azi Paybarah, Christine Quinn followed up her evasive and pessimistic statements about congestion pricing this morning with a firmer but still pessimistic statement about her position:
February 15, 2013
One Year and 280+ Deaths Later, No Council Progress on NYPD Crash Reforms
It was a year ago today that the City Council transportation committee, led by James Vacca and Peter Vallone Jr., convened a hearing on pedestrian and cyclist safety and the failure of NYPD to properly investigate traffic crashes.
February 15, 2013
Chris Quinn: “I Don’t Anticipate Congestion Pricing Coming Back Around”
Dana Rubinstein reports that City Council speaker and current mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn is bearish on congestion pricing's political prospects:
February 15, 2013
Quinn, Citing “Middle Class Squeeze,” Ignores High Cost of Transportation
Just hours before her final State of the City address today, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn released a report on the challenges facing middle-class New Yorkers. But her vision has a conspicuous blind spot: the transportation costs consuming more than one in ten dollars of the average NYC household budget.
February 11, 2013
London Mayor: Get Bigshots Out of Cars, Onto Transit “Like Everybody Else”
London Mayor Boris Johnson, whose entertaining quotes about Mike Bloomberg have been ricocheting around New York's political circles today, could teach a thing or two to the candidates running for mayor here in NYC. Yesterday, "Boris from Islington" called in to a radio talk show with a recorded question for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about Parliament's profligate spending on cars for political leaders. It's a question New Yorkers can appreciate.
February 8, 2013
Shu Ying Liu, 69, Killed by Hit-and-Run Truck Driver in Hell’s Kitchen
The driver of a private dump truck accused of killing an elderly woman in Hell's Kitchen Tuesday has been charged with leaving the scene.
February 6, 2013
NYPD: Bus Driver Who Ran Woman Over Did Nothing Wrong
The bus driver who ran over and killed a woman in Canarsie last Friday broke no laws, according to NYPD.
January 28, 2013