NYS DOT Says FDR Drive Rehab Could Drag Out A NY State Dept. of Transportation spokesperson told the NY Daily News this week that because of capital budget cuts, the project schedules for ongoing large capital jobs like the reconstruc...
Somerset and Morris I-287 Widening Begins Construction crews began work to widen Interstate-287 in Morris and Somerset Counties this week, despite a court appeal by organizations opposing the project. The Rutgers Environmental Law Cli...
Brodsky Drafts NYC Transit Dump Diesel Legislation NY State Assembly Environment Committee Chair Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) has drafted legislation that would force NYC Transit to abandon diesel bus technology. The bill as presently writt...
Route 1 Collaborative Underway Wednesday's meeting of the NJDOT-Tri-State Transportation Campaign collaborative on reducing Route 1 corridor traffic congestion in northern Middlesex County got the initiative off to a good start. <...
Advocates Protest Fare Hike and Service Cuts Transit advocates distributed 80,000 leaflets to NYC subway riders Tuesday, generating waves of straphanger phone calls to Mayor Giuliani, Governor Pataki and State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Sil...
NJ Turnpike Authority Abandons 20-mile Superhighway Link The NJ Turnpike Authority announced this week it was abandoning a plan for a 20-mile superhighway link from exit 2 of the Turnpike to the Atlantic City Expressway. After the Authority unveiled...
Pataki Asks EPA for Clean Air Act Deadline Extension NY Governor George Pataki has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency for a two year break on the federal deadline for implementing an enhanced auto emissions testing system. The Clean Ai...
Wallingford Connecticut Ponders Big Box Ban In response to recent approvals for a Wal-Mart and a Super Kmart, Wallingford, CT is pondering a ban on additional large retail development along its Route 5 commercial strip. A consensus that...
TA and MNRR Discuss Rail Station Bike Parking Plan Metro-North Railroad officials met with Transportation Alternatives this week to outline its rail station bike parking plan. This publication recently labeled the railroad the "regional laggar...
ConnDOT's Szabo Briefs TSTC on Connecticut Highway Collaborations Former Connecticut DOT Assistant Commissioner Peter Szabo briefed Tri-State Transportation Campaign members March 23 on achieving successful collaboration with highway project sponsors and othe...
Lawmakers Defend Amtrak A large bi-partisan group of U.S. lawmakers wrote on March 23 to the Chairs of the House and Senate Budget Committees in defense of Amtrak. The letter said that "A safe, convenient and effecti...
Lautenberg: Federal Cuts Will Hurt Local Transit NJ Senator Frank Lautenberg told a conference of the American Public Transit Association two weeks ago that proposed federal cuts to transit will force local agencies to cut service and/or raise fares...
Port Authority issues RFI on electronic toll collection system The Port Authority has issued a "Request for Interest" seeking proposals for technical consultant services in support of planned implementation of an electronic toll collection system. Call 20...
Comptroller Hevesi: Employment Decline in NYC A report released in February by New York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi examined the sources of the city's employment decline relative to the country as a whole (NYC employment fell 13% from 1969 to 19...
