Turnpike Truck Dilemma Highlights Absence of Freight Plan In spite of heavy financial burdens, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has decided to stave off a toll increase for the next three years. The Authority cited its concern that a toll hike would lead m...
Transit Fare Speak-out New York City Council Speaker Peter Vallone's Wednesday State of the City address referred several times to themes articulated by the Straphangers Campaign and other Campaign members in the ongoing fi...
Around the Region: Roosevelt Center Minibus Kudos A Newsday editorial called the new Roosevelt Center minibus a great idea and blamed initially low ridership on holiday season congestion and low publicity. Launched by Long Island Bus a...
Around the Region: Metro-North Blasted for West Shore Reluctance In a letter to the Rockland-Journal News, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign criticized Metro-North Railroad for its reluctance to support proposed NJ Transit West Shore passenger rail servi...
Around the Region: Sidewalk Repair A comprehensive repair program of New York City's 12,000 miles of sidewalks could save the city over $46.5 million in sidewalk lawsuits. According to a recent report, a record 5,365 trip-and-fa...
Around the Region: Route 46 Expansion Opposition A 28-month, $11 million expansion plan for Route 46 released by the NJ DOT met with strong opposition from Passaic County residents. Local homeowners fear construction would add to traffic con...
Around the Region: Holiday Decorations Blamed for Ped Death Holiday decorations on a median divider that obstructed a driver's view in Old Saybrook, CT were cited in a Superior Court lawsuit for contributing to the death of a pedestrian. The lawsuit al...
Federal Policy Issues will Loom Large in '96 Considerable regional activity as 1995 drew to a close prevented us from covering important developments in Washington. In this issue we spotlight recent federal legislation and early debate antic...
NHS Battles Won, Budget War Being Lost President Clinton signed the National Highway System (NHS) and the transportation appropriations bills into law in November. The NHS bill received media attention mostly because of its repeal of feder...
ISTEA Reauthorization Battle Lines The highway lobby and its friends in Congress feel they have the momentum -- riding on the deregulatory zeitgeist -- to get what they want now from successor legislation to ISTEA. They therefore fav...
Can you Spare Half a Cent? Recent House and Senate legislative maneuvering could render moot the contest between Amtrak and mass transit interests over one-half cent of Federal gasoline tax revenue. The Senate Finance Commit...
More Highways = More Traffic A recent study from a group at the University of California, Berkeley supports the argument that new highways or highway capacity generates additional motor vehicle traffic. While many might view thi...
