Giuliani's Airport Plan... The Daily News reported yesterday that Mayor Giuliani had endorsed a plan developed with Queens Borough President Claire Shulman to extend the Transit Authority's N train line from Astoria t...
NJDOT Paves over State Land Use Plan New Jersey Future, the Trenton-based growth management advocacy group, highlights NJ Dept. of Transportation's woeful compliance with the NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan in its March-April...
Memo to D'Amato: Fire Pollster, Buy Calculator The NY Times reported last week on Senator Alfonse D'Amato's moves to position himself as a populist, following local polls showing negative coattails from Republican leaders' hardline policies...
Dept. of Potholes on Trial Mayor Giuliani's proposal to transform the city Dept. of Transportation into a "Department of Infrastructure Maintenance" was on trial at a May 6 meeting of the NYC Bar Association's Transportation C...
Trenton Arming for NYC Assault on PATH A resolution [AR-78] presented to the NJ State Assembly earlier this Spring urges the Port Authority Board of Commissioners, and indirectly, Governor Whitman, to reject NYC pressure to raise fares on ...
F Y I Number of passengers that can be carried on a single U.S. subway line in an hour: 30,000
Number of additional highway lanes needed if those riders drove instead: 10
Annual econo...
Testing NJ's State Plan Because its intent is to channel development into areas that are already served by services like roads, sewers and even public transportation, the NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan has poten...
The Case for Civil Service Rule Reform In the May 5 NY Times "City Section," NYC Dept. of Transportation's Bob Schulman responded to an inquiry about Manhattan bus stops whose siting requires riders transferring between buses to cro...
Around the Region: Bee-Line Suburb-to-Suburb Pilot Connecticut Transit and Westchester County's Bee-Line bus system will launch a trial express-bus route between the Stamford and White Plains train stations June 3rd. The "I-95" bus linking int...
Around the Region: Brooklyn Express Bus Fracas Sea Gate and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn civic activists are fighting Transit Authority plans to shorten the X-29 express bus route to Manhattan and to slash three of its morning runs. The TA claims...
Around the Region: Upstate NY Counties Get Bus Cuts Albany area bus riders have had to contend with more than higher fares since last week. Service cuts by the Capital District Transportation meant the elimination of three bus routes and the "p...
Around the Region: Express PATH Trains Morning express PATH trains from Newark Penn Station to the World Trade Center began running late last month. The trains save approximately 3 minutes, and riders have reported more "elbow room...
Around the Region: LIRR Ticket Window Closing News In a letter last week to the Long Island Business News, Nassau County Comptroller Frederick Parola bashed the MTA plan to close some LIRR stations and ticket windows for its "apparent ab...
ConnDOT Rte. 6 Plan Cut Down Again Hartford Courant political columnist Don Noel broadsided CT Dept. of Transportation plans to build a Route 6 expressway east of Hartford this week, arguing that the costly quarter- to half-bill...
Fare Deals: NYC DOT, Not MTA, Gets it Right The Daily News reported this week that the MTA was working on fare discount programs to boost the sagging fortunes of its MetroCard electronic fare collection program. MetroCard, which must b...
D'Amato Joins Westchester Rail Foes While Daniel P. Moynihan frets at New York State's frittering of federal transportation dollars on routine road maintenance, NY's junior U.S. Senator has been busy blasting one of the MTA's few transi...
CT Bike/Ped Plan: Better Late Than... ConnDOT hopes to issue a draft of its (federally-mandated) state-wide bicycle and pedestrian plan this spring. The plan was outlined two years ago by an advisory committee convened for the purpose, w...
Trip Reduction's Twilight Transportation Committees in both houses of New Jersey's Legislature approved bills (S.53 and A.1491) last week that would eliminate NJ's commuter trip reduction rules. Though President Clinton...
