NY Transportation Funding Plan on Hold As we reported last week, the battle between Mayor Giuliani and the Port Authority has thrown the normally smooth back room workings of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) into turmoil....
JFK Rail Plan: Easy Target An interesting aspect of the long debate over rail transit access to New York City's airports went unreported in NYC papers this week. Namely, that the Port Authority is working with Newark city offi...
City Transit News Ridership, Revenue Up: We reported several weeks ago that NYC Transit bus ridership was up 17% this July over the previous July because of the MetroCard free transfer policy. Now Transit repo...
NY Transportation Strategy: AWOL The NY Metropolitan Transportation Council, NYMTC received a measure of recognition this week because of the latest round in the Giuliani-Port Authority war.
But those already in the know made NY...
Next Step for NYC Now that Mayor Giuliani has discovered NYMTC and the power he can wield through it over transportation projects, is it possible that leadership could become an ingredient in NY transportatio...
ISTEA Re-write Now Likely in '98 The gulf between Senate and House efforts to reauthorize ISTEA widened considerably this week. The House transportation committee decided to put major reauthorization action off for six months,...
NY Times Edits Driving Gap Last weekend, NY Times readers saw Matt Wald's piece, "Number of Cars is Growing Faster than Human Population," reporting preliminary findings from 1995 NPTS (Nationwide Personal Transportation...
Around The Region: Energy Efficient Light Bulb Fracas NYC DOT Commissioner Christopher Lynn is planning to install 18,000 energy efficient light bulbs in traffic lights in Queens. The proposal raised eyebrows in the City's budget office, whose di...
Around The Region: Overweight Trucks Don't Heed Warnings Drivers of overweight trucks are not heeding warnings to avoid Hillcrest Road, which climbs a steep hill just off I-78 in Watchung NJ. In response, police are cracking down in innovative ways. ...
Around The Region: NJ Speed Limit Fight Hopewell Township, NJ residents are pushing for a 30 mph speed limit on Route 640. Mercer County freeholders already approved a 30 mph speed limit, and signs are posted. However, the lower lim...
NJ Fiddles as Port Opportunity Fades The City of Bayonne is poised to dedicate one of the largest pieces of waterfront property on NY Harbor to non-maritime uses. Surprisingly, Bayonne's course has barely raised the eyebrows of state an...
CT's Rail Freight Wannabes While trucks carry the lion's share of freight in Connecticut's coastal corridor, a movement is on at the Southwestern Regional Planning Agency (SWERPA) to develop a market for rail freight on the ...
Speed Enforcement That Works In 1992, the NJ Legislature outlawed the use of photo radar for highway speed limit enforcement. Photo radar measures roadway speeds and triggers a camera aimed at the license plate of any vehicle ex...
NJ Transit Parking Budget Revisited In MTR #131 (June 20) we incorrectly stated that NJ Transit planned to spend $48 million building additional parking spaces along the Morris & Essex Line to accommodate new ri...
