500 Clean-Fuel Buses for NYC NYC Transit and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) announced Thursday that Transit had made a commitment to buy approximately 500 natural gas or electric hybrid buses when large-scale...
First-Ever Double Veto of MTA Capital Plan In letters yesterday and today, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan and State Senator Norman Levy, respectively, vetoed the capital plan due from the MTA to the legislative Capital Program Review Boa...
Sued Again The Nassau County village of East Hills sued to block the NY State Dept. of Transportation's Long Island Expressway carpool lane construction project at the end of August, and announced ...
Subjective at Any Speed: CT's Schizo Drivers A Hartford Courant poll has found that two-thirds of 500 drivers surveyed want the speed limit on CT superhighways raised to 65mph. Compared to previous surveys, more drivers now say th...
Whitman, Wilson Say Speed Up Newark Airport Rail Project New Jersey's Governor and Transportation Commissioner think the Port Authority has gotten so much flak from NYC Mayor Giuliani that it has slowed projects in NJ to make itself look better-disposed tow...
NJDOT's State Rail Plan Foiled by Conrail Deal NJDOT issued its FY 96-97 "State Rail Plan Process" document in June -- about a year late. The report details the projects in which DOT has invested, the Plan's objectives, the procedure and methodol...
Commissioner Meets Traffic-Weary Brooklynites At a Brooklyn public forum in Monday, NYC Transportation Commissioner Christopher Lynn gave his views on the Gowanus Expressway, traffic calming, and parking. Lynn also spoke about his job at the top...
Driveways for Development Well-placed rumors emanating from NJDOT this week indicate that the department is abandoning its effort to improve and tighten the regulation under which developers and others must gain access, throug...
Labor Day weekend was the most deadly on NJ roads since 1987 -- 18 people died in traffic crashes over the three days. This year's fatality rate was triple last year's. The first and last...
FYI "Britons ate 10 percent fewer calories overall in 1991 than in 1980, according to government estimates, while the number of heavyweights [overweight people] doubled.
Polls that show gasoline cons...
GAO: Transportation Enhancements a Goner Without $ Set-aside The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report in August that concludes that projects financed through ISTEA's Transportation Enhancements program will be seriously reduced u...
