Pataki Questions I-287 HOV Project Gannett Suburban newspapers in Westchester County reported last week that Governor George Pataki was weighing the positions of officials and groups opposed to the widening of the Cross-Westchester Exp...
Free Transfers Lead to Money Train The Straphangers Campaign revealed this week that burgeoning subway and bus ridership and full tax coffers are generating a healthy operating budget surplus at the NYC Transit Authority....
New Buses, Old Fuel With bus ridership climbing, the TA is revising its bus purchase plans upwards. Based on ridership steadily declining during the past decades, planners had projected a need for about 3,200 bus...
Molinari Calls for Look at Congestion Pricing A study on the economic implications of tolls on Staten Island bridges released last week by Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari recommends the pursuit of federal funding to study incentiv...
Howland Hook Rail: No Fast Track Rail access to Staten Island's Howland Hook Marine Terminal will not be implemented this year, and could be delayed until the end of 1998. Rail lines on Staten Island's north shore, that could...
Railroads Wring Hands: Town Shows How It's Done This week the Township of Maplewood announced plans to expand its train station shuttle service (see MTR 143), made possible by the State's offer of three jitney mini-buses (two of them ...
Gowanus Groups Await Community Engineer Two years ago, the Gowanus Expressway Community Coalition asked the NY State Dept. of Transportation to provide a community engineer. Civic groups in the coalition felt technical guidance thro...
Slowing Somerset Somerset County, NJ is seeking a consultant to recommend ways to apply traffic calming techniques to local and county roads. The analysis, to begin in the next few months, may also recommend specific...
