Elections

She's made it much worse.

They had her back, so now she better have theirs. New Yorkers who actually ride the subway supported Gov. Hochul by a much wider margin than her overall 69.5 to 30.3 election victory in the city over Republican Lee Zeldin.

The city's only political action committee devoted to safe streets is asking voters to retire longtime state Sen. Kevin Parker — and reward one of the legislature's most high-profile street safety advocates, Andrew Gounardes.

If Democrats gain even a single State Senate seat in November, the political terrain for congestion pricing will look even better.

Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon managed to put on the most important televised discussion of the MTA among candidates for statewide office in recent memory.

The group is trying to make speed cameras a major campaign issue in key districts.

Advocates unveiled a six-point policy agenda including the enactment of congestion pricing to help fund the MTA's Fast Forward plan.

Races for the White House and Congress aren't the only ones on the ballot tomorrow. Though as usual there aren't many competitive contests for State Senate and Assembly, voters who are interested in transportation funding and safer streets should check out a candidate survey released over the weekend by the New York Bicycling Coalition, the Straphangers Campaign, Transportation Alternatives and Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

Andrew Cuomo may have handed continued control of the State Senate to the Republican Party by allowing them to draw their own districts, but 2012 is still an election year. With the Senate leadership's latest attack on transit funding, they aren't making it any easier for their New York City candidates to win.