Route 92 Turmoil The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told the NJ DEP that it required additional information regarding the NJ Turnpike Authority's proposal to construct a new east-west toll highway in Mid...
Queens HOV Foes Fight On Sources say foes of the Long Island Expressway HOV project in Queens are ready to return to court and continue the fight against the project. Plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to stop the NYS DOT...
What Did They Say? The Straphangers Campaign needs subway riding volunteers to conduct a survey of subway-car announcements. Volunteers will be asked to record observations of subway announcements during daily commutes...
ISTEA Legislation Looks Dead in '97 The U.S. Senate stopped consideration of its ISTEA-2 bill this week after several attempts to end debate of a campaign finance reform rider that Democrats had attached to it. The Senate's inability t...
Congress, Campaign Weigh in on Conrail Deal With a view to reducing truck traffic across NY Harbor, through NYC and up into Connecticut, twenty-four NY and CT members of Congress have petitioned to intervene in the Conrail acquisition proceedin...
Fed Funds Flow to Roads, Big Ticket Transit President Clinton signed the federal fiscal year 1998 transportation appropriations bill on Tuesday. The funding measure contains significant amounts for big transit projects in the region, including ...
Cost of Transit Success While the Transit Authority has added service on some bus lines in response to recent ridership gains, the bus lines controlled by NYC DOT have not. The city bus lines are concentrated heavily...
Humps in the 'hood Traffic calming has arrived at a street near you, if you live in New York City. Speed humps designed to slow traffic to safer speeds (between 15 and 20 mph) are popping up around the boroughs, and mo...
Traffic Calming: AAA's Take An article in a recent NY Motorist invites drivers to imagine the streetscape as both motorist and pedestrian, and backs the proposition that traffic should be slowed where it interacts ...
Can NYC Sustain Traffic Calming? New York City's speed hump program puts the Big Apple in the forefront of urban traffic calming in the northeast, but observers worry that the recent installations may languish without much follow thr...
NYC Cycling on a Roll Bicycling in New York City is up sharply from a decade ago, with more than 100,000 people cycling on city streets on average weekdays. Transportation Alternatives calculates that in 1997, an avera...
