"Save Farms and Forests" -- NJ Anti-Sprawl Campaign Launched Two influential environmental groups, the NJ Audubon Society and the State Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, launched a statewide petition drive this week to put teeth into the State Development and...
Road Pricing Promoted The Star-Ledger editorialized in favor of congestion pricing Thursday, noting the concept's center-stage position at a Monday seminar organized by Columbia University and the Regi...
Transportation With Representation Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan has introduced legislation in Albany that would add a Bronx and a Queens resident to the Metro-North and LIRR Commuter Councils, respectively. Today, about 5% of Metro-N...
Another Mega-Project Heard From "Access to the Region's Core," a study on regional rail links, with emphasis on trans-Hudson links, will be released this spring. The joint Port Authority, MTA and NJ Transit effort was undertaken du...
New Cars The Transit Authority announced its largest ever single contract -- $1.4 billion for 1,080 subway cars to replace the 1950's-era "redbird" IRT cars. The cars will have features such as electronic voic...
Trucks Go Home, or is the Enemy Us? The Princeton area was featured in a Tuesday Wall St. Journal piece on the community impacts of increasing truck traffic. Truck traffic has jumped 50% on local streets in the last 10 years, ad...
Althought the issue of reducing express bus fares remains at an impasse, efforts to get Staten Island express buses through bottlenecks are bearing fruit. NYC DOT is constructing a bus ramp...
Rare NJ DOT Bright Spot to Shrink? While New Jersey DOT's capital planning generally ignores the NJ State Plan's emphasis on the state's urban areas, it has one small program specifically created to address the Plan's priorities. The D...
Rte. 92 Not Dead Yet An April Princeton Packet editorial said a "$50 million per mile solution is not appropriate" for the area potentially impacted by the NJ Turnpike Authority's proposed new Rte 92 6-mile toll hi...
Around the Region: Sheridan/Bruckner Interchange Study New York State DOT is beginning to study an upgrade of the interchange between the Bruckner and Sheridan Expressways in the Bronx. The upgrade's goals would be to reduce crashes, ease traffic ...
Around the Region: Newark Monorail Popularity Grows The Newark Airport monorail is proving so popular that monorail parking lots are almost always full. The $7 parking fee is a draw, as is the time savings by using the system to move quickly fr...
Around the Region: NJ's Hunterdon/Mercer County in the News At an April 5th meeting, Hunterdon and Mercer county officials said transportation is the biggest problem facing the counties. The meeting again spotlighted the problem of excessive truck traf...
Seeking Subway [Cycling] [Striding] Sam Gridlock Sam Schwartz took issue with our calling his space in the Daily News a "column for motorists moaning" in coverage of NYC Transportation Commissioner Chris Lynn's plan to open th...
