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Welcome to the inaugural “Winners and Losers,” your guide to the week’s heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and smart growth. This week’s winners (who did things we like): Senator Chuck Schumer— New York’s stalwart Senator is leading the fight to restore the federal transit tax benefit, which lapsed at the end of [...] Tom Vanderbilt’s How We Drive blog recently posted some eye-opening photos of street makeovers in the English town of Ashford. Here’s the “before” image for one street: And here’s the “after”: In some areas the redesign incorporates “shared street” concepts, eliminating traffic lights and forcing all road users to keep an eye [...] Clockwise from top left: TSTC's Kyle Wiswall, The Point's Adam Liebowitz, Julien Terrell of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, SBRWA's Melanie Bin Jung, Nos Quedamos's Anna Vincente, and Joan Byron of the Pratt Center for Community Development. Members of the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance took to the Bronx’s Sheridan Expressway during [...] The initial set of MTA hearings on the agency’s “doomsday” plan to raise fares and cut service ended last week (there is one more hearing, scheduled for March 2 in Orange County), but advocates from the Empire State Transportation Alliance and the Campaign for New York’s Future haven’t let up. On Tuesday, ESTA [...] This advertisement, which MTR spotted on the back of a New Jersey business journal (we won’t identify who took it out), just goes to show that “better” is a subjective word. The Route 4 & 17 Interchange project, pictured above, expanded both roads. Not long after the completion of the project, the nearby [...] (click for larger version.) New Haven officials gave out some traffic-safety-themed goodie bags at a recent meeting attended by TSTC staff and others. TSTC’s bag bore the logo of New Haven’s Street Smarts traffic safety education program, which the city launched in October at around the same time its board of alders passed [...] Democrat Roy Simon is challenging Republican State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (also running on the Conservative and Independence tickets) in New York’s 9th Senate District which encompasses parts of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County. [...] [...] Democrat Matthew Meng is challenging Republican State Sen. Carl Marcellino (also running on the Conservative and Independence tickets) in New York’s 5th Senate District which encompasses parts of the Towns of Huntington and Oyster Bay in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. [...] [...] Republican Michael McGinty (also running on the Conservative ticket) is challenging Democratic Assm. Harvey Weisenberg (also running on the Independence and Working Families tickets) in New York’s 20th Assembly District which encompasses the Southwestern sector of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County. [...] [...] Democrat Howard Kudler is challenging Republican Assm. David McDonough (also running on the Conservative, Independence and Working Families tickets) in New York’s 19th Assembly District, which encompasses the Southeastern sector of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County. [...] [...] |
 
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