NY Construction Industry Faults Transit Plan In letters sent last week to Governor Pataki, Mayor Giuliani, and MTA Chair E. Virgil Conway, the New York Building Congress questioned the viability of the financial and capital plans proposed by ...
Gowanus Goes to Washington Lack of response by the NY State Dept. of Transportation to community concerns about the planned 10-year reconstruction of Brooklyn's Gowanus Expressway has led federal officials to take the matter...
Making the Grade The NJ Dept. of Transportation is developing a set of performance measures as tools to evaluate the NJ's transportation system's progress toward the goals established in the recently published state-w...
NY's Transportation Goals The New York State draft long range transportation plan does set a number of goals for reducing traffic growth and boosting transit use. These went unnoticed in our initial reading of the plan becaus...
NYC Council Safety Bugs Prompted by a series of Daily News and NY Post articles and editorials lambasting the NYC Dept. of Transportation for dangerous pedestrian crossings and unsafe roadways, the NYC Counc...
NY Assembly Hearing: Dump Diesel On Tuesday, Sept. 12, NY State Assembly Environmental Conservation and Corporations Committees investigated health impacts of diesel soot and NYC Transit's continued purchase of diesel buses. Test...
NJ Diesel Commitment Stands Out Monday's Trenton Times carried a front-page report saying NJ Transit was "stuck in gear" relative to U.S. transit agencies that are abandoning diesel buses as part of efforts to fight urban pol...
Bandwagon is Alt-Fueled An order issued by Massachusetts Gov. William Weld adds Boston to the list of cities that have taken the "no new diesels" pledge. Weld announced last week that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority...
South Bronx Tackles Transport The South Bronx Transportation Education Initiative has organized five workshops to help residents get involved in local, borough and city-wide transportation issues. Banana Kelly, the community rede...
Little Opposition at Long Island HOV Hearing While a small number of Roslyn area residents mounted feisty opposition to plans for extending the Long Island Expressway's carpool, or "high-occupancy vehicle" (HOV) lane at a public hearing in Lake ...
Tales from Two Railroads: Metro-North Woos Drivers... Metro-North Railroad will increase the number of rush-hour trains on its New Haven Line in October, railroad officials announced last week. The expansion responds to growing ridership, especially re...
Hard Times: Amtrak and Cities Scrap Over Half Cent Amtrak President Thomas Downs recently announced that the national passenger railroad could function without federal subsidies by 2002 if Congress approves an authorizations bill under consideration ...
