Rowland: Commuter Rail Likely to Survive The New Haven Register reported Thursday that Governor Rowland had "conceded defeat" on his plan to end commuter rail service on Shore Line East and Metro-North's Waterbury and Da...
Campaign to NJ DOT: Fix it First The Tri-State Transportation Campaign and its New Jersey constituent groups and allies took the "Fix it First" message to the public, releasing its analysis of NJ DOT's capital budget at a Tuesday pre...
Free the Buses The NYC Transit Authority released new summer bus schedules at this week's Transit Committee meeting. Anticipating a strong surge in bus ridership once its free bus-subway transfer policy come...
West Shore Watch On Thursday evening, NJTransit and Bergen County hosted a meeting of local officials and community leaders in Tenafly to kick-off the latest in a long line of studies of the restoration of West Shore ...
Passaic County Freeholders agreed to meet a longstanding public appeal by scheduling a March 31 public meeting open to all residents of Wanaque to discuss the County's proposal to construct the "R...
Brooklyn Traffic Calming Advocates Dig In In recent editions we've reported on the conflict between Brooklyn officials and civic leaders, on the one hand, and the NYC Dept. of Transportation, on the other, over a district-wide traffic calm...
More on NJ's ISTEA Priorities NJ Transit informs us that the reference in their ISTEA-2 project list to the "Newark City Subway Extension" (see last week's MTR) was not to the plan to extend the Newark subway north t...
NJDOT Bike/Ped Policy Still Mostly Theoretical Mayors, county and town planners, citizens and others comprising the Route 1 (Trenton to Woodbridge) Bike/Pedestrian Project Steering Committee got an impressive presentation Feb.7th of ...
The NY Times reported continuing impasse between Governor Pataki and Mayor Giuliani over rail access to NYC's airports. Other newspapers had reported a pending State-City deal earli...
Agencies Won't Release Rte. 29 Re-evaluation FHWA and NJ DOT have officially refused to disclose the re-evaluation of the 17-year old environmental impact statement for a 1.7 mile segment of Rte. 29 in Trenton, to be built at taxpayer expense. ...
