Tri-State Area May Be Choice for U.S. Smart Highway Program An unofficial and as yet unsubstantiated report says that the U.S. DOT has selected the metropolitan area as one of a small number of urban regions to receive priority infusions of technology, trai...
Revelation of the Week:"Time is Money" The Mobilizing the Region #92 report on the Port Authority's analysis of peak-period toll premiums at Hudson River crossings drew intense media response this week. The stories ran in the St...
NYC Mega-Store Zoning Fight Down to Wire New Yorkers for Responsible Land Use Policy will protest the zoning change proposed by Mayor Giuliani to weaken NYC land use review procedures and permit the opening of retail mega-stores in industria...
AAA Hints at Incentive Toll Fight September's Car & Traveler magazine exhibits the AAA's anxiety about studies and real-world tests of roadway pricing, and may presage a campaign to ensure that incentive tolls are unable to...
NJ Environment Officials Reject Ringwood Bypass Impact Study The NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection suspended its review of Passaic County's proposed Ringwood Avenue Bypass project, in July, declaring the road project's environmental impact statement incompl...
Prioritizing Transit Local 726 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, representing S.I. transit workers, is waging an energetic campaign to reduce fares from $4 to $2 on NYC Transit express buses and create bus lanes...
Brooklyn Traffic Uproar Intensifies Last Thursday, one hundred west Brooklyn residents stopped traffic at the corner of Bond and Pacific to renew their call for traffic calming. The rally, the third this year, met with strong su...
Around the Region: LIRR Riders Want Free Transfers Too Nassau and Suffolk County Executives and business and commuter representatives are pressuring the MTA to extend its bus/subway transfer policy -- set to begin July 1997-- to LIRR riders,...
Around the Region: NJ Route 518 Truck Fight Hopewell township, East Amwell and Montgomery residents have initiated a "neighborhood effort" against 18-wheeler trucks on Route 518, where truck traffic has skyrocketed in the p...
Common Sense vs. Induced Traffic Scores of residents of Randolph Township in Morris County, NJ objected at a July public hearing to NJ DOT plans to widen the Suffolk Turnpike from two to four lanes for a congested one-mile str...
One-third of commuters in Copenhagen travel by bicycle, but the government says that's not enough -- the official goal is to eliminate two of every three car trips under two miles. Cyclin...
