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Overcoming Skepticism, Lentol Joins Families to Back 20 MPH Speed Limit
Yesterday, members of Families for Safe Streets traveled to Albany to speak with legislators about legislation to lower NYC speed limits and increase automated enforcement of dangerous driving. They came away with an early victory: Assembly Member Joe Lentol of Brooklyn, a street safety ally who had been skeptical of a bill to lower the city's default speed limit to 20 mph, surprised the families by showing up at their press conference and giving a moving speech about why he now supports the measure.
March 19, 2014
Cuomo Announces $67M for Bike/Ped Projects, Including Pulaski Bridge
[Editor's note: Streetsblog will not be publishing Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.]
January 17, 2014
Twenty-One NYC Reps Back Brodsky’s Student Fare Falsehood
On Friday we noted that Assembly Member Richard Brodsky's latest anti-transit argument -- that "the actual cost of free and discounted student fares is close to zero" -- doesn't hold water. A letter from Brodsky addressed to MTA CEO Jay Walder calls for reinstating student MetroCards, laying blame for the program's potential elimination at the MTA's feet while neglecting to mention Albany's leading role in reducing funds for student transport.
February 22, 2010