Rowland Rail Redux -- Budget Proposal Would Kill 3 Rail Lines CT Governor John Rowland proposed eliminating the Waterbury and Danbury Metro-North Railroad commuter rail lines and Connecticut DOT's Shore Line East commuter rail lines in his budget speech yesterda...
Pataki's Road Budget Cuts Local Repair Funds Governor Pataki's FY 1998 budget proposes to cut $35.8 million in road operating and maintenance funds from NY State's general fund aid to municipalities and counties. The proposal would reduce the s...
Airport Rail Deal -- Continued A Newsday editorial last Sunday provided a few more details of the NYC airport rail access deal reportedly being developed by Mayor Giuliani and Governor Pataki. As we reported last issue, the...
D'Amato Will Push for LIRR E. Side Access Senator Al D'Amato told Newsday yesterday that preliminary studies look like they would give him and Senator Moynihan ammunition sufficient to get the $2 billion needed to connect the...
Premature Obit for Subway Economics The NYC Transit Authority reported this week that subway ridership had risen to its highest level since the early 1970s. At the same time, bus ridership continued its long decline, plunging over 5% i...
Straphangers Settle Civil Rights Suit with MTA The Straphangers Campaign and the NY Urban League have agreed to settle their suit over the racial fairness of the MTA's Nov., 1995 fare increase. Though subway riders paid a greater portion of costs...
Dollar Cabs Claim Strait-Jacket Passenger van operators in Queens and Brooklyn were expected to file a class action suit against New York City this week. The operators say laws restricting their operations are arbitrary viol...
Your AAA Membership at Work: "Bike Paths Kill Motorists" The American Automobile Association is urging Congress to abolish the "transportation enhancements" program established by ISTEA. Under the program, federal funding for bicycling and pedestria...
The Best Channel The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is beginning a comprehensive study of the navigation needs of the Port of NY/NJ. The work will likely examine the tradeoffs between various dredging and port devel...
NY State DOT: Westchester HOV or Bust One of the largest road expansion projects currently proposed by the NY State Department of Transportation is the addition of carpool, or "high-occupancy vehicle" lanes to the Cross-Westchester Expres...
Greig Harvey, 1950-1997 Greig Harvey, a consultant to the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and perhaps the country's leading transportation-demand modeler, died Friday morning in Santa Monica, CA, of a heart attack. He was...
Can Brooklyn Traffic Calming Plan Survive Agency Assassination? As we went to press, it was unclear whether a traffic calming plan favored by Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden and numerous community organizations would outlast the hostility of the city and ...
Rt. 29 To Eclipse Trenton Waterfront The segment of Trenton's tranquil and historic waterfront not already despoiled by highways will be wiped away if NJDOT constructs a four-lane, 1.7 mile highway segment along and under the Delaware Ri...
