Want Port Study? Take Your Pick Whether the universe began with a Big Study is still an open question, but it seems any renaissance of the NY/NJ port will require a slew of them. After years of planning vacuum, agencies in the regi...
Other Airport Access Plan Moves Along Port Authority planning for ferry service from Manhattan's East Side to LaGuardia Airport has proceeded quietly throughout recent turmoil over the JFK-Jamaica light rail line. Quietly, that is, unles...
More Math Sources at the MTA say the 11-for-the-price-of-10 NYC Transit Metrocard fare discount slated to begin in January, 1998 will not be a static deal for a single, prescribed number of fares. Rather, t...
MTA Loses Rockaway Revenue A Sept. 30 MTA board action removed the Cross Bay Bridge toll for Rockaway residents as of January 1, 1998. The bridge, which connects Queens with the Rockaway Peninsula, has long been a point of cont...
Traffic Zeitgeist: Straight on Red In perhaps the most pathetic testimony we've seen yet to growing chaos on our streets, a Sept. 23 Hartford Courant editorial called on motorists to respect traffic signals and stop at red light...
Pedestrians Need Infrastructure Too New Jersey Transportation Commissioner John Haley has agreed to allocate $1 million from New Jersey's transportation local aid funds for towns to install pedestrian safety infrastructure. This is a d...
Fixing What We've Got Bronx economic development interests announced this month that they had signed a letter of intent with the MTA for long-term lease of the air rights over the Metro-North Harlem Line tracks between 144...
L.I.E. HOV -- Usage Hits Ceiling? NY State DOT traffic volume statistics for the Long Island Expressway high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes show some growth since the lanes opened in 1994, but the numbers are almost flat over the last ...
NYC Transpo Chief Goes Ballistic -- Again The NY Times called last weekend for a "real" mayoral campaign that would, among other things, discuss real transportation problems like traffic congestion, subway crowding, urban highways and ...
No Good News from NYC We wanted to write a good news piece about the new traffic calming speed humps popping up in New York City neighborhoods. But the NYC DOT press office couldn't be bothered to speak with us and...
Electric Cars Struggle for Niche NJ Transit has purchased 21 electric cars and is planning to buy 9 more. They will be used in a 3-year test of the "station car" concept - the cars are reserved by "reverse" city-suburb commuters, wh...
Gore Blows Chance to Limit Wilderness Road Building An amendment to cut funds for logging road construction in U.S. wilderness areas from the Senate's Interior Appropriations bill was defeated last month when Vice President Al Gore missed a chance to c...
West Trenton Look Launched US DOT this week awarded NJTransit a $496,511 grant to study reviving the West Trenton commuter rail line, which runs 21.6 miles from West Trenton to Bound Brook through Somerset and Mercer Counties. ...
