Tri-State Campaign Organizations Take Position on Airport Access In a June 23 letter delivered to Port Authority Director George Marlin and made available to New York's leading elected and administrative officials, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign told Mar...
Senate Votes on Traffic Safety Issues The Senate opened the door for states to boost the speed limit on many roadways in non-rural areas. A bill which would eliminate the federal speed limit for cars was passed 65-35. In a very c...
White House Rejects Highway Projects as "Pork" In his first veto (FY95 Rescissions Bill (HR 1158)), President Clinton, angry about the loss of money for education and other social programs, railed at Senators for substituting "pet highwa...
Congressional Funding Outlook for Transit: Bleak Transit operators face tough times if a House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation has its way. It approved unanimously a 13.4% cut in the budget for funding to mass transit systems for f...
Sterling Forest Supporters Speak Out Citizens, local officials, and conservation and environmental group reps testified atpublic hearings last week held by the NY DEC to garner comments about the DGEIS submitted by the Ste...
"Sidewalks are for People" New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton recently suggested that police officers parking illegally and running red lights is the first step towards "corrupt acts, even brutal acts." In Jo...
Where's the Brooklyn Bridge? By the end of the summer, cyclists should have some assistance finding bridge entrances in and out of Manhattan. At Transportation Alternative's urging, the NYC DOT has agreed to install "trailbla...
Derman Mum on Site Standards for Now At a June 19 meeting with NJ Dept. of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Harriet Derman and staffer William Connolly, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Middlesex Somerset Mercer Regional Counci...
Express Buses Spared the Ax MTA chairman E. Virgil Conway caught many by surprise when he requested that express bus service cuts to be voted on by the MTA boardThursday be removed from the agenda. As a res...
*Some* Students Get a Break Another apparent double standard in transit service has cropped up as the Mayor's office and the City Council confirmed a plan to subsidize transit passes for certain students in Queens,...
Howland Hook Dredge Spoils to Utah? Marine operations at Staten Island's Howland Hook Terminal, closed since 1986, may be revived as early as this fall, as the Port Authority has determined to send contaminated dredge sediment to...
Lawsuit Filed to Stop New Haven to Boston Rail Electrification Opponents of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor electrification project have filed a lawsuit against Amtrak and the Federal Railroad Administration in federal district court in their continued effor...
Connecticut Town Down to One Bus In Wallingford CT, local bus service will dwindle to just one busroute and the Wallingford Transit District will disband, giving over supervision of the remaining service to ConnDOT. T...
Strikes Loom Both Metro-North and NJ Transit face the possibility of labor strikes, and both agencies, unlike the LIRR are preparing contingency plans and advising commuters now to devise alternate plans to...
