/19971003/mtr14501.htm	Strong Response to Pedestrian Safety Report	October 3, 1997	On Tuesday, the Tri-State Campaign and NJPIRG Citizen Lobby released <I>Walking Away: the NJ Dept. of Transportation's Fatal Neglect of Pedestrian Safety</I>, a report on transportation safety spendin</b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14502.htm	Giuliani Concludes Airport Rail Deal -- Gets Cash, LaGuardia Look, Not Better JFK Plan	October 3, 1997	In negotiations with Governor Pataki occasioned by his threat to hold up the flow of federal transportation dollars to downstate NY, Mayor Giuliani agreed to let the Port Authority's Jamaica-JFK Airpo</b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14503.htm	Enviros Offer Road Plan	October 3, 1997	A study on upgrading Route 6 east of Hartford commissioned by Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE) won <B>praise from federal environmental officials </B>this week, which could spell additional </b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14504.htm	Transpo Forum Hits Plan to Sink Bayonne Port	October 3, 1997	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 (</b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14505.htm	Traffic War Rooms	October 3, 1997	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</b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14506.htm	Another LIRR Station Scandal	October 3, 1997	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</b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14507.htm	Coordinated Policies Stem Car Growth in German Cities	October 3, 1997	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 </b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14508.htm	Big Railroad Blues	October 3, 1997	Railroad industry observers say the service and safety problems plaguing Union Pacific Railroad, and <B>growing publicity </B>about them, will play a big role in the Surface Transportation Board's scr</b></i></u></a>...	145
/19971003/mtr14509.htm	Art Bus	October 3, 1997	Previously, we had criticized the apparently <B>car-only </B>preparations underway for the big opening of the new New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark (see <I>MTR </I>127).  But recentl</b></i></u></a>...	145