NJDOT Faces Massive Opposition to "Draft" Capital Program Once again, NJDOT has thrown New Jersey's capital project planning and budgeting process into a tailspin by proposing its capital plan at the eleventh hour, just short of delivery to the Legislature b...
LIRR East Side Access: Some Questions With a five-year federal transportation authorization on the horizon, powerful political backing has rapidly elevated the connection of the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Terminal to the top of...
NJTPA Tables Action on Rte. 29 NJDOT's effort to amend the 1997 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program to include an initial $7 million of "bridge" funds to begin construction of Rt. 29 was temporarily thwarted when th...
Wynn Welfare Deal Coming Apart? The Asbury Park Press has reported that the highway/tunnel to Atlantic City's marina district may cost as much as $330 million, since Mirage, in a hurry, plans to employ two work shifts daily, ...
Talking to a Wall The New York State Department of Transportation continues to struggle against a torrent of opposition to its plan to rebuild the elevated Gowanus Expressway. At the request of Congressmembers...
At Highway Forum, Staten Islanders Call for Transit At a "Staten Island Expressway Corridor Major Investment Study scoping meeting" held last Thursday, Staten Island citizens and elected officials called on NY State DOT to study transit options as alte...
Mayor to Clinton: Dig We Must The Staten Island Advance's City Hall bureau reports that Mayor Giuliani broached his cross-harbor rail freight tunnel proposal with President Clinton when the president was in town last...
Pataki Priorities The NY Observer reported last week that the project list the Pataki Administration was circulating among the NY Congressional delegation for preferred ISTEA-2 projects included not only the LIR...
Around the Region: More Operating Costs Recovered in PATH System Cost cutting and ridership gains have increased the NJ/NY PATH subway system's recovery of operating costs to 44%, up from 37% a few years ago. Officials think the ratio can be increased to 50...
Around the Region: Rockland Ferry News The NY State Thruway Authority says a Nyack village board resolution against plans for a ferry landing and associated parking will be taken into consideration, but may not decisively alter the ...
Big Apple Congestion Parking In The News A Feb. 28 Daily News article on in-car parking devices spurred radio and TV coverage suggesting that motorists faced an imminent electronic age debacle akin to the introduction of the E-ZPass. ...
A Small Step for Good Policy In recent weeks, Rep. Susan Molinari (R.-Staten Island) has staged the much-needed Congressional counter-attack against proponents of "STEP-21," a proposal to condition the amount of federal tr...
Another Big Study The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently launched a comprehensive examination of navigation needs for the Port of New York and New Jersey. The first public step, inevitably, was to co...
No Accident The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is purging the word "accident" from official usage, changing instead to "crash."
