Transit Surplus an Enduring, Growing Fact According to financial data slated for release at next Monday's (11/17) MTA Transit Committee meeting that was obtained by NYC transit advocates, NYC Transit continues to run a budget surplus. The fi...
Rail Fare Cuts = Big Rider, Revenue Payoff Usually, transit officials resist calls for lower fares, arguing that new riders attracted will not counter revenue losses. But defying conventional wisdom, recent reductions in transit fares on Metr...
Stopping a Bigger L.I.E. State Senator Frank Padavan filed a notice of appeal in NY State Supreme Court this week, resuming the battle over the NY State DOT's plan to widen (with new carpool lanes) the Long Island E...
Capital Ideas The New Jersey Dept. of Transportation recently solicited the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's input on its capital plan for state fiscal year 1999. The initial list of capital plan projects becom...
Urgent Call for NJ Traffic Calming Fund Following the deaths in traffic of a school crossing guard and a teenaged pedestrian in neighboring Essex County towns last week, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and NJPIRG garnered significant ...
City Buys Buses to Fight Crowding We reported in MTR #149 that constituents of State Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan had reported increased crowding on many Queens buses this fall. Nolan, in turn, called on city transportation Ch...
More Hurdles on JFK Rail Project's Path The status of the Port Authority JFK-Jamaica Station light rail project was clarified at a Wednesday night Queens Borough Hall meeting of the major transportation agencies operating in NYC (convened b...
Feds Want Gowanus Tunnel Analysis The Daily News reported Nov. 4 that the Federal Highway Administration - at the urging of Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Jerrold Nadler - had decided to study proposals for rebuilding Brooklyn's Gow...
E-Z Parking The Port Authority is considering installation of EZ-Pass readers at its airport parking facilities. We reported in MTR #136 that the NYS Thruway Authority is testing a similar parking scheme i...
Mad Max on the Merritt Speeding motorists are frequently going over 80 mph - and often up to 100 - on Connecticut highways, according to the Hartford Courant.
Over seven days from July to September, Connecticut Sta...
Oregon Will Fix it First Oregon's Governor John Kitzhaber recently ordered a halt to planning for new road construction beyond 2001. The move came in response to shrinking state revenues. This will result in a shift o...
