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Don’t Like John Liu’s No-Toll Proposal? He’s Asking for Budget Suggestions
Last month, mayoral candidate and Comptroller John Liu released a series of proposals to show what his office believes should be included in the city's final Fiscal Year 2014 budget. It included some bad ideas, such as exempting city residents from East River bridge tolls, and a few good ones, like dramatically increasing the size of NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad.
May 13, 2013
Liu: Increase NYPD Crash Investigation Staff Six-Fold
Buried in Comptroller John Liu's "People's Budget" proposal released last week (way below the part about bridge tolls that New Yorkers don't have to pay) is an interesting proposal about NYPD's crash investigation staffing.
April 19, 2013
John Liu: Cyclists Need Helmets, But Not Bike Lanes
What does John Liu think of bikes in NYC? That's hard to say, and it's not clear that Liu knows either.
April 16, 2013
John Liu Releases a Bridge Toll Plan That Panders to Motorists
So John Liu has managed to take an excellent idea -- tolling the East River bridges -- and turn it into a policy disaster.
April 10, 2013
How Many Are Hurt and Killed in NYPD-Involved Crashes? Don’t Ask NYPD.
Gothamist has been following the case of Ryo Oyamada, the Japanese student who was struck and killed by an NYPD officer near his Queensbridge home in the early hours of February 21. The department claims the cruiser was moving at 35 to 39 mph on 40th Avenue, with lights on, as officers responded to a call, and that Oyamada stepped in front of the cruiser mid-block. But multiple witnesses say there were no lights or sirens, and that the officer was driving at 70 mph when Oyamada, 24, was hit near 10th Street.
March 13, 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
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
Liu’s and Pucher’s Bike-Share Math Is Wrong, and Not By a Little
Hey, remedial math teachers: the City Comptroller’s office is hiring. At least, let’s hope so. Judging from Comptroller John Liu’s innumerate broadside against the City’s Bike Share program, they badly need help in basic arithmetic, not to mention fact-checking.
June 25, 2012
Despite Media Posturing, Liu’s Bike-Share Report Mostly Calls for Safer Streets
When bike-share launches next month, eventually adding 10,000 public bicycles to the streets of New York City, it won’t bring new chaos and peril to city streets, contrary to recent statements from Comptroller John Liu. Even so, with the number of cyclists set to increase dramatically, the launch of bike-share is a good opportunity for the city to go even further in its successful efforts to improve street safety.
June 25, 2012
Mayoral Contenders Talk Transit, Part 3: John Liu
Election Day is more than a year away, but the race to become the next mayor of New York City is well-underway. In the last two issues of its magazine, Reclaim, Transportation Alternatives has been asking the would-be mayors for their thoughts on transit (in the more recent interviews, one question about cycling was added). So far, TA has received responses from all of the major candidates except 2009 Democratic nominee Bill Thompson.
May 23, 2012