{"id":1715,"date":"2019-03-08T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:05:32","slug":"speaker-corey-johnson-delivers-first-state-of-the-city-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/03\/08\/1715\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Corey Johnson Delivers First State of the City Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Calls for Municipal Control of City\u2019s Mass Transit System and Proposes Legislation to Revolutionize City Street Space Planning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson delivered his first State of the City address on Wednesday at LaGuardia Community College in Queens. Speaker Johnson focused on the City\u2019s mass transit crisis, calling for municipal control of New York City\u2019s mass transit system and announcing legislation that would revolutionize the way we plan our street space.<\/p>\n<p>To accompany his calls for a massive shakeup of the way New Yorkers move around the five boroughs, Speaker Johnson released a 104-page report titled <em>Let\u2019s Go: A Case for Municipal Control and a Comprehensive Transit Vision for the Five Boroughs.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0The report offers a detailed road map for how each of his proposals could be accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Johnson encouraged all 8.6 million City residents to read the report and then join him in the fight for a mass transit system that is efficient, affordable, accountable, and sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>The speech was simultaneously broadcast in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and French Creole. The transcript is posted on the Council website and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/soc2019-final-remarks\/\">via this link.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LetsGo_Transit_Report.pdf\">The full\u00a0<em>Let\u2019s Go\u00a0<\/em>report is also available for download on the Council website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos from the speech will be posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nyccouncil\/\">the New York City Council\u2019s\u00a0Flickr page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Calls for Municipal Control of City\u2019s Mass Transit System and Proposes Legislation to Revolutionize City Street Space Planning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson delivered his first State of the City address on Wednesday at LaGuardia Community College in Queens. Speaker Johnson focused on the City\u2019s mass transit crisis, calling for municipal control of New York City\u2019s mass transit system and announcing legislation that would revolutionize the way we plan our street space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/03\/08\/1715\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}