What Did They Say? The Straphangers Campaign released the first of a new series of reports on the performance of the NYC public transit system Tuesday. The study, "What Did They Say?: A Survey of Subway C...
EPA Says No to Route 92 The U.S. EPA's Region 2 (NY/NJ) dealt a severe blow to the NJ Turnpike Authority's plan to build a new limited-access highway connecting the Turnpike and Route 1 in Middlesex County this week, accordi...
Auto-Populism vs. Transportation Finance Gas tax cuts will be high on the Connecticut legislative agenda in 1996. In his state of the state address this week, Governor Rowland tried to engineer instant consensus for a cut, asserting, "We al...
Fighting Words Possibly signalling a coming escalation of the controversy over NY State DOT's plan to expand the Cross-Westchester Expressway (I-287) with new HOV lanes, the Town Board of Greenburgh voted Thursday t...
Catching Up: Fare integration A Metrocard will serve as a free pass to the franchise buses operating under NYC subsidy in the City's outer boroughs, according to an announcement by Mayor Giuliani in late December. The City will s...
Catching Up: NJ Traffic and Ped Fatalities Rise Again New Jersey's upward trend in traffic fatalities continued for a second year in 1996. Pedestrian fatalities also increased, maintaining their share of all traffic deaths in the state at just over 22%....
Catching Up: ISTEA Works The coalition of northeastern states, West Virginia, Illinois and Washington State favoring the continuation of federal transportation law largely in its present form, that we reported on in MTR #109,...
Catching Up: Fast-Tracking ISTEA-2 Reports from Washington say Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott wants to approve an ISTEA successor bill by the Easter recess in late March. House Transportation Chair Bud Schuster circulated a letter ...
Catching Up: Clean Air Priorities Considered In a Dec. 20 letter to a broad group of environmental organizations, Rhode Island's Senator John Chafee, who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said he doubts whether the EPA...
Catching Up: New Leadership State Senator Anthony Ciesla of Monmouth County will head NJ's Senate Transportation Committee, replacing the late William Haines. The Star-Ledger reports Ciesla advocates more rail routes to t...
Catching Up: Worthless Agency Award The New York Governor's Traffic Safety Committee is funding radio ads that threaten would-be drunk drivers with a nasty fate: "Introducing this year's newest accessory for those who choose to drink an...
Catching Up: New Haven-Boston Amtrak Improvements Clear Last Hurdle Last week, a U.S. District Court opened the way for Amtrak to complete electrification of the Northeast Corridor. The court denied a request for an injunction against the project brought by Connectic...
How Easy Projects Don't Get Done According to the managers responsible for New York City's $50 million in federally funded bicycle and pedestrian projects, an irrational state and federal contract approval process is creating lengthy...
Around the Region: Sussex Turnpike Fracas A legal dispute is brewing between Morris County and Randolph Township following a county freeholder vote to widen the Sussex Turnpike over the town's objection. The town wants to deve...
Around the Region: PATH Battle Lost PATH managers have lost a battle to save money by switching jurisdiction for oversight of the NJ/NY subway system from the Federal Railroad Administration to the Federal Transit Adminis...
