Regional Rail Expansion: CT Shore Line's Victory from Defeat... Connecticut's Dept. of Transportation, in conjunction with Amtrak, will extend Shore Line East -- the commuter rail line operating between New Haven and Old Saybrook -- east to New London...
...Steady Progress in Jersey The NJ Transit board of directors agreed last month to spend $4.2 million to study restoration of passenger service on the West Shore rail line. Abandoned since 1959, the passenger line...
...Hypothetical in NY A team of consultants has recommended the revival of passenger rail on Staten Island's North Shore railway. Their report said implementing train service is a major step the borough could take...
Straphangers Won't Stand for Fewer Seats NYC Transit will approve final design for a new generation of subway cars early in 1996. But according to an opinion piece by the Straphangers Campaign's Joe Rappaport in the Daily News last w...
MTA Capital Plan Again Questioned Can the MTA afford new train cars? New York business interests, transit advocates, planners and academics joined the Tri-State Transportation Campaign to urge the MTA board to reject the proposed 1...
Transit Manufacturers Convene in Albany Another pole of concern about the transit capital program surfaced in Albany one day after Governor Pataki announced increased funding for road and bridge projects in the state. Some of the larges...
Around the Region: Bike Lane Expansions Questioned A resolution approved in December by Manhattan's Community Board 6 (east side of Midtown) seeks to prohibit installation of bicycle lanes on any street or avenue in the neighborhood. The resol...
Around the Region: LIRR Platform Design Flawed A design error has made new train platforms at the LIRR's Islip and Great River stations temporarily unusable. The firms that designed the platforms failed to compensate for a platform tilt th...
Around the Region: Poughkeepsie Extends Bus Service Hours Poughkeepsie's city transit system extended evening bus service from 6 p.m. to 9:30 on a trial basis during the holiday season. Transit officials are also working on an agreement for free trans...
Around the Region: Heightstown Bypass News In spite of overwhelming opposition from a 300-plus crowd at a Dec. 14 "information session," NJ DOT has begun advertising for bidders on the $75 million, four-lane Hightstown Bypass. Opponent...
Around the Region: Hartford Transit Changes Connecticut Transit is revamping its traditional hub-and-spoke bus system in the Hartford area to include suburban "nodes" where bus routes will converge. The agency hopes to increase ridershi...
The Gowanus Files Facing a tidal wave of criticism, NY State Dept. of Transportation's Region 11 (NYC) office has postponed public hearings scheduled for this month on the Environmental Assessment (EA) it drafte...
"Dump Diesel" Support Grows Again In December letters to MTA Chair E. Virgil Conway, NYC Transit President Alan F. Kiepper and the members of the MTA Capital Program Review Board, Manhattan Borough President Ruth W. Messinger called o...
Amtrak Electrification: Moving Along Amtrak has completed most electrification design work and tie replacement for the upgrade of the New York-Boston segment of its Northeast Corridor line. Amtrak says these improvements, along w...
