NY Dump Diesel Effort May Cash In A $1.5 billion "Clean Water, Clean Air" bond act announced yesterday by NY Gov. George Pataki contains $100 million for investment in alternate fuel buses and the state's electric vehicle industry. Th...
Doublespeak, the Language of Paving Is it a good sign of changing times that New Jersey highway officials keep intoning: "We can no longer build our way out of traffic congestion" ? Or is it a bad sign of business-as-usual that they ke...
Sander Resigns New York City Transportation Commissioner Elliot Sander resigned Thursday night. He will leave City DOT on July 19. Giuliani Administration sources said that Joan MacDonald, the agency's Chie...
Phase I (the easy part) of Core Access Study Complete The Access to the Region's Core Study (ARC) has narrowed its 16 major transit improvement alternatives to four finalists. This all-too-unique cooperative effort among the Port Authority, MTA a...
Mobilizing the Community While community battles against traffic-generating big-box stores are becoming a regular feature of American local politics, the massive opposition in Hamilton, NJ (Mercer County) to megastore-welc...
Around the Region: Could Be Due to Midtown Direct Glitches On the eve of NJ Transit's new Midtown Direct service, train service from Hoboken west was knocked out without explanation tonight . Some riders surmised that last-minute signal tuning for the Kear...
Around the Region: Decrease In CT Bus Ridership CT Transit has reported a marked increase in bus ridership in its Stamford division, which includes a Stamford-Greenwich-Port Chester Line. Ridership in the division climbed 12% in the year fo...
Around the Region: Harlem Line Third Track Endorsed White Plains Mayor Sy Schulman recently endorsed Metro-North's proposal to add a third track between the Harlem Line's Mount Vernon West and Crestwood stations. The project would improve local...
Around the Region: Metro-North Working To Be Bike Friendly Metro-North is vying to become the region's most bike-friendly commuter railroad. Beginning June 30, Metro-North's Hudson line is adding six weekend "bike trains," for a total of ten with no l...
Around the Region: Improved NJ Bicycle Access Requested The Coalition of NJ Cyclists has asked the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority for improved bicycle access to the Rte 18 bridge linking Rutgers University campuses flanking the Rarit...
Memo to New York: The Value of Transit The economic case for investing in transit is being made in practice and in increasingly well-crafted messages. The recent revision of the MTA capital plan may be a sign that the issue is getting th...
Sacramento Tries Area-wide Traffic Calming A new traffic plan adopted in Sacramento, Calif. will reverse a 1950 decision to convert downtown streets from two-way to three lane, one-way couplets. G and H Streets will be converted back t...
