On Monday, ground-breaking and federal check-signing ceremonies were held in Northern New Jersey for the Hudson-Bergen light rail system and the NJ Transit Secaucus Transfer project,...
Speeder City A new study by Transportation Alternatives finds that the NY Police Dept. hands out only 44 speeding tickets a day on local streets in the five boroughs. Despite pedestrian death and injury ra...
NJ DOT Bike/Ped Vacuum (Partly) Filled After a year's vacancy, NJ DOT has hired William Feldman as its full-time Bicycle/Pedestrian Advocate. The Whitman Administration said the move demonstrated commitment to walking and cycling, though m...
West Shore Line Prospects Brighten Metro-North RR has apparently had a change of heart, helped along by money. The West Shore line, which runs through Bergen County into Rockland, was, until recently, a closed book for Metro-North and ...
Non-Solutions for Rail Parking Problem "If we do nothing to help downtown merchants obtain parking, soon there won't be a downtown and the whole city will suffer," said a Common Council member in Summit, N.J.
As a major hub on New Jerse...
Call Congress Sources in Washington say Rep. Bud Shuster, chair of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will propose a provision for "uniform transferability" by a state of up to 50% of funds...
Transport Mono-culture vs. Biodiversity In Princeton on April 11, environmentalists heard from Tom Schueler, Executive Director of the Center for Watershed Planning, that cars are the most intrusive factor in loss of watershed recharge.
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Diesel Rx? Governor Pataki announced Tuesday (Earth Day) he is proposing that NY State require emissions testing for heavy-duty vehicles. Presently, trucks and buses in New York are not required to compl...
CT Commuter Rail Still Chugging The future of Shore Line East and Metro-North's Waterbury and Danbury branches is looking up. Despite Connecticut Governor Rowland's desire to eliminate them, rail funding was provided in the b...
Road Projects Hit Home Civic opponents of intrusive highway expansion plans from across New Jersey gathered in Trenton Tuesday. They told NJ DOT it needed a more varied toolbox for addressing traffic congestion. Com...
Don't floor it: The "Aggressive Driver-Aggressive Enforcement" Campaign, a federally-funded effort, is underway. It provides extra enforcement to catch motorists driving in "unsafe or bell...
