MTA Debt Bomb Revisited An analysis of MTA finances released Wednesday by the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee (PCAC) to the MTA says concerns expressed over a year ago that the MTA's 1995-1999 capital and operating pla...
DOT Project Finds No Friends at Gowanus Meetings In the last two weeks, more than 100 concerned citizens, civic leaders and elected officials from communities along the Gowanus Expressway turned out for two "scoping meetings" for the environmental i...
Another Court Skirmish to Queens L.I.E. Foes Earlier this month, the NY State Supreme Court denied a second attempt by the NY State DOT to move the lawsuit against its Long Island Expressway widening project in Queens to venue in Long ...
U.S. Court: More Highways = More Traffic A federal court decision last Thursday sent agencies proposing the extension of I-355 into a rural Illinois county back to the drawing board, and brought the question of traffic caused by the expan...
Up With Regional Planning, Down With NYMTC Following criticism from federal agencies last summer, the staff of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), the federally-designated "metro-politan planning organization" (MPO) for ...
Around the Region: Citizens Paint Chalk Outlines The Jan. 21 Village Voice reported that an unnamed group of New York City citizens has begun marking sites where pedestrians and bicyclists have been killed in traffic. The group has st...
Around the Region: Make Way For the Atlantic City Tunnel NJ DOT is beginning eminent domain proceedings against Atlantic City homeowners who refuse to make way for the tunnel and highway being built to facilitate casino development in the city's mari...
Around the Region: Express Staten Island Ferry Begins Service Express ferry service to Midtown Manhattan from St. George terminal in Staten Island began this week. The ferry's private operator, NY Fast Ferry, says the trip to the pier at East 34th...
Rail Freight Tunnel Scorecard Initial reactions in print to Mayor Giuliani's statement last week that New York City intends to build a rail tunnel to NJ and redevelop its port:
In an age when New York City seems to have give...
Advocates Say Hartford Jobs Shuttle a Success A December pilot city-to-suburb transit shuttle set up by homeless advocates and Hartford Mayor Michael Peters was used heavily by inner-city job-seekers, some of whom were able to find holiday season...
CT Transit Advocates Will Fight Gas Tax Cut Members of the CT Metro-North/Shore Line East Commuter Council vowed at a meeting last week to fight the gas tax cut proposed by Governor Rowland and the legislature if it means cuts to transit ser...
Traffic Calming Meets Levittown? The RBA Group, an engineering firm interested in planning for cyclists and pedestrians (the company did most of the work on New Jersey's Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan), may hold a seminar to boos...
Paving the Landscape with Executive Driveways New York State DOT, FHWA and the Town of New Castle are preparing a draft environmental impact statement for their plan to widen a section of Route 120 in Westchester. The project also involve...
U.K. Debates National Traffic Reduction Goals Today in the U.K. House of Commons, a "Road Traffic Reduction Bill" that was the subject of a large London rally and mass lobbying activity on Wednesday passed an important legislative hurdle -- its "...
Transit Guide Orange County has released a new guide to transit services in the County. "From Here to There: Orange County Transportation Guide" contains a comprehensive guide and schedules to bus, park-and-ride, c...
