Which Way for NY State HOV Projects? Officials and citizens facing carpool lane proposals from the NY State Dept. of Transportation wondered this week about the policy implications of Governor Pataki's cancellation of the Cross-Westchest...
Time for New Approach Whether or not the NY State Dept. of Transportation regards the Governor's decision to cancel its I-287 project as a policy change, the DOT should reflect on the years of work spent on the proj...
Governor, MTA: Slow on Surplus Governor Pataki and the MTA made efforts to reduce momentum toward fare reduction or service increases by the NYC Transit Authority this week. Since the Straphangers Campaign identified a mounting ...
Does Carpooling Work? In the wake of Governor Pataki's cancellation of the Cross-Westchester Expressway high-occupancy vehicle lane last week, the following research findings may be of interest to HOV watchers.
In a 1997...
Big Long Island Plan Launched, Criticized NY State DOT may in fact be trying new methods with its "Long Island Transportation Plan to Manage Congestion" study, which admirably grew out of several earlier highway corridor studies. The effort ...
S.I. Hopefuls Talk Transport This week, the Staten Island Advance surveyed candidates for office on their transportation policy proposals:
In the country's only congressional race this fall (to fill the seat vacated by S...
What's the Tunnel's Tag? At an informal discussion Wednesday, Regional Plan Association analysts defended their cost estimates for placing the Gowanus Expressway in a tunnel against much higher figures being cit...
Bailing Out Bad Development (and Encouraging More of the Same) Despite a shift in rhetoric toward "regional planning," many highway agencies remain firmly rooted in the business of accommodating the traffic caused by bad land use decisions. And often, the...
Global Warming Hot Air Misses the Point Although you wouldn't know it from media covering recent developments in the politics of global warming, or from President Clinton's emission reduction plan, transportation in the United States ...
