A weekly roundup of good deeds, missteps, heroic feats and epic failures in tri-state transportation news.
Winners
Albany Councilwoman Leah Golby and the Albany Common Council — Golby introduced a Complete Streets ordinance that Albany’s Common Council passed in a near-unanimous vote earlier this week.
Pro-lockbox Connecticut legislators – In the wake of a roughly $110 million sweep from the State’s Special Transportation Fund, a bi-partisan effort from Transportation Committee co-chairs, Democrats Representative Tony Guerrera and Senator Andrew Maynard, along with Republican State Senators Toni Boucher and John Kissel, and Representative David Scribner, passed lockbox legislation that prevents future sweeps from the State’s Special Transportation Fund.
45+ elected officials and candidates for office — Along with transit advocates, a coalition of elected officials and candidates for office are calling for the MTA to apply an extra $40 million in State funds toward service restoration.
Losers
Residents of 150 Joralemon Street — Residents of the Brooklyn Heights building dumped garbage on a nearby Citi Bike station, creating the same kind of obstacle to convenient transportation they claim to be protesting. Real mature.
Connecticut — The General Assembly adopted a budget that moved $109.7 million in dedicated transportation funds to the State’s general fund.
American transit riders — People who ride buses and trains across the United States lost one of their biggest allies in Washington this week, New Jersey Senator Frank R. Lautenberg.
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