Transportation

Rethink Transportation

Expand the City’s Fair Fares Program

The Fair Fares initiative was a significant first step by the City, but we need to refund the program so that more New Yorkers can receive assistance. If we expect New Yorkers to keep the City running, we need to provide them with the resources they need, including transit assistance. I'll push to include more expansive funding for Fair Fares in all future budgets. 

Safe Network of Bike Lanes

We should continue to install where they are safe, needed, and supported by the local communities. The roads aren’t only for cars, and we should make sure that everyone traveling on our streets is safe. 

Keep Open Streets Open

We’ve seen how successful the Open Streets program has been; let’s make sure to keep the Open Streets program running and maintain these open streets across the City and see to the 100-mile pledge made by De Blasio is met. 

Focus on Zero Emission Transit

In compliance with the zero-emission transit goals of the incoming presidential administration, the multi-state Memorandum of Understanding, and New York State’s climate protection act, we support the full electrification of public transit buses and school buses in New York City and advise generous funding from the state and the city level to support the construction of EV infrastructure and EV operational research.  We support 1557 because the DOT Masterplan Law is a good step in making safer, greener, and more human-centered streets, crosswalks, intersections, bike lanes, and sidewalks.  Transit Signal Priority is a proven effective way to increase efficiency and reliability on bus routes, making buses a more attractive form of transportation for commuters and decreasing congestion and emissions for everyone on the road in NYC. These are all important aspects of making NYC less focused on car transportation and more amenable to other, more sustainable methods of transportation.  

Pandemic Proof Transit

It’s more important than ever to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by any means possible; this includes imposing strict requirements on public transit in order to protect the safety of both transit workers and users, such as wearing masks and ensuring frequent vigorous cleaning. We advocate the provision of adequate personal protective equipment for transit workers, including gloves, masks, and face shields, in order to save lives: New York City saw the deaths of over 100 transit workers by May 2020, less than two months after the first case was reported in the state. Being an essential worker should not be a death sentence. Let’s make sure that our workers are fully protected but that we also keep a clean public transit system for good.