NJ DOT: Road Widenings "Unopposed" Throughout State The project "wish lists" submitted by New Jersey DOT to NJ's congressional delegation for inclusion in this year's five-year federal transportation authorization are organized in an interesting way. ...
NJ Capital Program: What Next? Last week, we reported on the chaos created among New Jersey municipalities and counties by the discovery that NJDOT was some $300 million short for capital projects that DOT and the state's M...
Shore Line East Survival Hearing A "field hearing" of the CT Legislature's Appropriations Committee: Subcommitte on Transportation will be held Tuesday evening, March 11 7:00pm at the Elizabeth Adams School on Route 77, Guilford.<...
Pavement Dreams As we surmised last week, the NY Observer report on NY State's ISTEA-2 wish list only covered its NYC aspects (LIRR-Grand Central, Penn Station/Farley Building, Gowanus). Also included are ...
NYMTC: Unimproved The Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration are nearing a deadline for deciding what to do about the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), the ISTEA-desi...
Stamford: Road Projects Need Review Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy withdrew the city's support for the widening and straightening of Stillwater Road this week, responding to a public outcry. At recent hearings on the project, Stam...
Queens Lawmaker: Ban Dialing and Driving Talking on car phones while driving would be prohibited in NY State under legislation introduced by veteran Queens State Senator Leonard Stavisky last week. Car-phone use is unregulated in the ...
How to Improve ISTEA In February, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP), a Washington, D.C.-based national coalition of public interest, planning, transit and environmental groups, released its platform for ren...
The new ferry service that was to have begun between Great Kills, Staten Island, and Wall Street has been held up by the NYC Dept. of City Planning over S.I. waterfront zoning issues...
Rte.29's Secret "Re-evaluation" Transportation reform groups learned this week that NJDOT had submitted to FHWA in Trenton a "re-evaluation" of the environmental and other impacts of the contested $94 million, 1.7 mile Rte. 29 Trent...
Best of Both Worlds? Port Authority officials cited in the NY Times were upbeat about the announced deal to divide Conrail between Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Corp., rather than have it absorbed by one or...
