Mary Peters
Streetsblog Basics
What Is “Mode-Neutral” Funding?
Different modes could be funded from the same pot, with allocations based on performance measures.
February 13, 2008
Peters Revisits Her Bikes “Are Not Transportation” Comment
Courtesy of commenter Steve, we have an update on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and her anti-bike comments from this past summer.
November 13, 2007
Secretary Peters Says Bikes “Are Not Transportation”
We'd expect this kind of thing from some people, but not U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters. On PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" this week, Peters stated that instead of raising taxes on gasoline to renew the nation's sagging infrastructure, Congress should examine its spending priorities -- including investments in bike paths and trails, which, Peters said, "are not transportation."
August 17, 2007
US DOT Gives NYC $354 Million for Congestion Pricing Plan
Sewell Chan at City Room has this morning's news. Here are some excerpts from his report:
August 14, 2007
From a Sea of Green, Bloomberg Works a Tough Room
Flanked by dozens, if not hundreds, of citizen spectators in bright green "I Breathe and I Vote" t-shirts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city staffers this morning made the case for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program to a largely hostile cadre of state Assembly members.
June 8, 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
Bush Administration Advocates for Congestion Pricing
Here's some more fodder for the debate that was prompted by today's earlier post about charging more for parking on city streets. This story, too, comes from the Wall Street Journal, and is available online to subscribers only. But you might want to run out and buy today's paper to read the whole thing, because the news is that in a budget blueprint to be released today, the Bush Administration is coming out in favor of congestion pricing:
February 5, 2007