Half of MTA Workers Commute in Private Cars Half of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 20,050 employees commute in private cars, according to today's NY Newsday. Two-thirds of these drive alone. Tri-State Campaign board...
First Public Edition of Mobilizing the Region The Tri-State Transportation Campaign delivered the first public edition of this bulletin Friday, October 14. Despite delays caused by a few technical kinks, over 300 transportation agency per...
Port Authority Extends Airport Rail Access Comment Period This week, the Port Authority of NY & NJ extended the deadline for comments on the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for its Airport Access Automated Guideway Transit (AGT)...
Citizens Back Gas Tax Hike at Forum Marjorie Angelo of NJPIRG reports that the last NJDOT Public Outreach forum on October 12, much like three earlier meetings held during September, was packed with citizens who backed a te...
MTA Chair Peter Stangl Honored as EPL "Official of the Year" Campaign member NY Environmental Planning Lobby named MTA Chair Peter Stangl "Public Official of the Year" in its 1994 Voters Guide. In announcing the award, EPL cited Stangl's commitme...
Goethals Bridge Working Group Update On Tuesday, October 18, 1994 the Goethals Bridge Working Group met for the second time for agency presentations. Peter King of NYSDOT discussed plans to add capacity to several Staten Island...
Conrail Volume Up, Reduces Short hauls Because Conrail's intermodal volume was up by 20% in the third quarter, it experienced capacity shortfalls (track and storage) that led it to raise some intermodal rates and cut out much sho...
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Categories Staff members of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and Transportation Alternatives examined the NYC portion of NYMTC's Transportation Improvement Program (of NYMTC's three transportation co...
East Side Groups Sue Over 42nd Street Light Rail Project A lawsuit filed at the end of September aims to derail NYC's planned 42nd Street light rail project. Manhattan East Side civic groups, led by the Tudor City Association, charges that th...
Montclair Connection Garners Support Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic's Lisa Richardson testified (on behalf of the Clinic, NJPIRG and NJ Environmental Lobby) at a NJTransit Board meeting in September, supporting the Montclair ...
Mall Bus Stop Dispute In Bridgeport The Trumbull Shopping Park outside of Bridgeport, Connecticut is seeking binding arbitration to settle the dispute over its plan to close the mall bus stop on weekend nights. The plan, announc...
