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It’s Alive. It’s Dead. It’s Three Men in a Room!
Erik Engquist at Crain's says a potential deal is in the works that would nix Gov. Spitzer's call for campaign finance reform and give Albany legislators a long-sought pay raise in return for congestion pricing approval.
July 11, 2007
Congestion Pricing Plan Advancing Rapidly
Sewell Chan at the New York Times' Empire Zone has more on this morning's meeting between Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Spitzer and US Dept. of Transportation secretary Mary Peters:
June 7, 2007
Spitzer Backs Congestion Pricing
Is Mayor Bloomberg actually going to pull this off? Governor Eliot Spitzer came out in favor of congestion pricing this morning. Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News reports:
June 7, 2007
Bloomberg Upbeat, Media Less So, Ahead of PlaNYC Hearings
With a scant few weeks left in the session, the state Assembly has scheduled the first of six hearings on PlaNYC -- including, of course, congestion pricing -- for Friday at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, at 42 West 44th Street.
June 5, 2007
The Power of Moses: Please Wield Responsibly
An op-ed piece by Eleanor Randolph in today's New York Times finds yet another lesson in the current re-examination of Robert Moses's legacy. Randolph looks at the enormously powerful entities, usually known as authorities, that Moses left behind: "public-private hybrid[s] that can collect fees, take on debt and build things with little government interference."
February 14, 2007
Are Port Authority’s Airport Expansionists Flying Blind?
The top brass over at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are patting themselves on the back about the PA's plan to take over Stewart Airport near Newburgh, NY. "The region clearly needs additional capacity for air travel," Anthony
Coscia, the agency's chairman, was quoted as saying in the New York Times. "It's undeniable. This is intended to remedy exactly that
problem." If the deal goes through, Stewart, 60 miles north of New York City, will become the region's fourth major air hub.
January 25, 2007
Sander Picked for MTA Director
As expected, word came out of Governor-Elect Eliot Spitzer's headquarters this morning that he will recommend the appointment of Elliot "Lee" Sander as executive director and CEO of the MTA. Sander is currently corporate senior vice president at DMJM Harris, a leading transportation engineering firm and director of the Rudin Center for Transporation Policy at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
December 15, 2006
Gov. Spitzer Transition Team Transpo Committee Named
It includes some leading members of the congestion charging brainstrust and some big MTA reformers. Via Chuck Bennett at AMNY:
November 20, 2006
Straphangers’ Russianoff Will be Named to Spitzer Team
Streetsblog has learned that Gene Russianoff, executive director of the Straphangers Campaign, will be named as a member of Governor-Elect Eliot Spitzer's transition team transportation committee. The announcement is likely to be made tomorrow. Russianoff says, "No comment." Unlike yesterday's inaccurate tip about the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability this item seems to be solid.
November 15, 2006
Rumor Mill: Sustainability Announcement Tomorrow
Word has it that the Bloomberg Administration's new Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability will unveil its first work product this coming Wednesday, November 15. It looks like this initial public announcement will be oriented more around the problems that the new office is thinking about and working on rather than the solutions. The solutions, I am told, may start to emerge as a part of the Mayor's State of the City speech in January.
November 14, 2006