Heated Discussion of Cross-Westchester Transportation Options Federated Conservationists of Westchester and the Westchester County Legislature's Environment Committee hosted a forum at Greenburgh Town Hall Tuesday evening on alternatives to the widening of I-287...
Activists Hopeful about NJ Trust Fund Renewal Transit and transportation reform activists are worried that New Jersey's Nov. 7 elections could be so sleepy that low turn-out will doom renewal of the Transportation Trust Fund. The legislat...
Transit Fight isn't Over: Boycott the New Token Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer joined transit advocates today, calling on New Yorkers not to buy the $1.50 transit token the MTA has put on sale throughout New York City. "Don't pay that ...
Pataki's Transit Shock Therapy Governor Pataki recently visited his ancestral Hungary, but his transit policies look Polish. A recent edition of Sustainable Transport reported that under Poland's "shock therapy" economic st...
Beset by Trucks, Princeton Leaders Seek Highway Link The Trenton neighborhood around Lamberton Road is awash in truck traffic, thanks to completion of a missing link highway section between I-295, I-195 and Rt. 29 opened in August by NJDOT. Beca...
Commission Thwarts Dissembling DOT in Hightstown In spite of NJ DOT's attempts to neutralize community opposition to the Hightstown Bypass, East Windsor, West Windsor, and Cranbury citizens' efforts to prevent construction of the four-mile, four-lan...
Parking Reaches Limit Despite the early October ground-breaking for a new 323-space parking lot at the Princeton Junction train station, commuter parking demand will continue growing and cannot be met with more parking<...
NY/NJ Big Guns Line Up for Sterling Forest Republican Representatives from western states are posing an obstacle to federal participation in the purchase of Sterling Forest, the NY Times reported last week. The Whitman and Pataki Admin...
Torch Passed for Land Use Law Reform Last week Albany and Pace Law Schools concluded their role as educators and leaders of an effort build consensus for land use law reform in NY State. For five years, the schools have hosted confere...
Borough Board Doubts S.I. Transportation "Plan" The Staten Island Borough Board -- composed of community board leaders, the borough president and city council members -- declined to support the Staten Island Transportation Action Plan at its early ...
One By Land, Two by Sea According to the Star Ledger, officials expect Newark Airport's new monorail will be completed this month. However, it will undergo extensive testing this winter before opening in th...
CT Light Rail: Quest for $ The Greater Hartford Transit District recently appointed Eileen Kraus to head the Financing and Implementation Task Force, charged with developing a funding and implementation strategy for the planned...
