Commish Daly bails -- TSTC Discusses DOT Capital Budget With Clash Pataki Administration Transportation Commissioner John Daly missed a scheduled meeting with representatives of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign members who had traveled from NYC and Poughkeeps...
APTA Poll Says 2/3 of All People Oppose Federal Transit Aid Cuts A Jan.-Feb. nationwide poll of 1,600 adults found that almost two of three respondents opposed proposals to cut federal aid to local public transit systems. The poll, released last week by the...
Newark Judge Rules NJ DOT Can Widen 20 Miles of I-287 On Tuesday, a federal judge in Newark ruled the New Jersey Dept. of Transportation could begin widening a 20-mile stretch of I-287 in Morris and Somerset Counties. The court denied a request f...
Pols Plan to Halt Service Cuts and Save MTA Capital Program At a Sunday press conference, NY State Assembly members Catherine Nolan, Albert Vann and Deborah Glick unveiled a plan to halt transit service cuts, prevent the deferral of system maintenanc...
NYC Transit Considers Regulations for Brooklyn Dollar Vans The NY Daily News reports that NYC Transit is considering regulations and standards to bring Brooklyn's "dollar vans" within the law as legitimate transportation providers. The vans, so...
Comptroller McCall Says LIRR Should Eliminate Freight Operation The NY State Comptroller, H. Carl McCall, recommended that the Long Island Railroad eliminate its freight operation, arguing the freight department makes less money than it claims. The audit said ...
Western German Transit Systems Increase Ridership Despite steady increases in auto ownership, total driving and shift of transportation market share from transit to cars (spurred by Europe's most extensive highway construction program), western Ge...
