Strong Response to Pedestrian Safety Report On Tuesday, the Tri-State Campaign and NJPIRG Citizen Lobby released Walking Away: the NJ Dept. of Transportation's Fatal Neglect of Pedestrian Safety, a report on transportation safety spendin...
Enviros Offer Road Plan A study on upgrading Route 6 east of Hartford commissioned by Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE) won praise from federal environmental officials this week, which could spell additional ...
Transpo Forum Hits Plan to Sink Bayonne Port Mayor Leonard Kiczek of Bayonne faced an avalanche of criticism Wednesday at a North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (TPA) meeting considering the issue of Bayonne's Military Ocean Terminal (...
Traffic War Rooms The MTA is looking to create more centralized control for NYC Transit, which still operates with decentralized "towers" where rail traffic is directed through signals and over switches. NYCT is planni...
Another LIRR Station Scandal An audit by NYC Comptroller Alan Hevesi contends the MTA overbilled New York City by $344,372 for station repair, maintenance and security costs for LIRR Queens stations while little actual work was d...
Coordinated Policies Stem Car Growth in German Cities While Paris chokes on auto-induced smog, John Pucher, a Rutgers urban-planning professor specializing in comparative international transport policies, is back from a year's study in Germany with news ...
Big Railroad Blues Railroad industry observers say the service and safety problems plaguing Union Pacific Railroad, and growing publicity about them, will play a big role in the Surface Transportation Board's scr...
Art Bus Previously, we had criticized the apparently car-only preparations underway for the big opening of the new New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark (see MTR 127). But recentl...