Mobilizing the Region

Councilman James Vacca supported better traffic safety enforcement

Your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and development.

Winners

New York State Senator Daniel Squadron (D-Brooklyn), New York State Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh (D-Manhattan), New York City Councilman James [...]

Your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and development.

Winners

U.S. Representatives Joe Crowley, Charlie Rangel, Jerrold Nadler, Carolyn Maloney, Bill Pascrell, Bob Turner, and Peter King—when word broke about how bad the House transportation bill was to the tri-state region, these Representatives spoke out about the legislation, which would [...]

Winners

Senator Lobiondo supported an amendment to the House transportation bill that would have restored funding for bicycle and pedestrian programs | Photo: markn3tel

James Vacca—the chair of the City Council Transportation Committee called traffic safety “a serious civil rights issue” after Councilwoman Gale Brewer introduced legislation that would help blind pedestrians navigate [...]

Your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and development.

Winners

Metro-North's New Haven Line posted record ridership | photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and smart growth.

This week’s winners:

Governor Cuomo

Hastings-on-Hudson—the Westchester village’s Board of Trustees passed a resolution urging Governor Cuomo to include mass transit in the Tappan Zee replacement plan. Hastings-on-Hudson’s resolution affirms what TSTC [...]

And now for the much-awaited second iteration of TSTC’s ‘Winners and Losers’ column, your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation.

This week’s winners:

Michael Bloomberg: Winner

Mayor Bloomberg—the Mayor’s State of the City speech showed his laudable urban planning ethos. He pledged to double the number of 20 [...]

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 [...]