Veronica Vanterpool, a transportation
authority board member picked by the mayor, said Mr. Cuomo spent time on superficial things, like adding lights on bridges, instead of critical but less sexy fixes like upgrading antiquated signals that are to blame for many delays.
Mayor Kathy Sheehan won a marquee battle with the Common Council to keep the city's new trash fee, but she lost three smaller skirmishes over her
picks for the five -
member board that runs the Albany Parking
Authority.