NJ DOT Releases Capital Plan "Project Pool" The New Jersey DOT's recently released "project pool", from which the 1999-2003 State Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) will be largely drawn, shows scant evidence of new thinking by the agency...
Pass the Politics Governor Pataki's proposal for city transit passes this week won high praise from media, straphangers and others. But city leaders Mayor Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone persisted in calls f...
Mayor to Name New NYC Transport Chief City Transportation Commissioner Chris Lynn reportedly confirmed today at a NYC DOT staff meeting a NY Post report that he had been asked by City Hall to take a sub-cabinet job. A succe...
Debating Staten Island's Future New York State DOT officials and consultants presented a rosy picture of congestion-free Staten Island highways and roads to the advisory committee for DOT's Staten Island Expressway Major Inve...
SIE Statement of Principles Released On Wednesday, the Tri-State Campaign, Assembly member Eric Vitaliano, State Senator Vincent Gentile, City Council members John Fusco and Jerome O'Donovan and Staten Island Citizens for Clean Air relea...
For the Record During a discussion on traffic induced by new road capacity at the Wednesday Staten Island Expressway meeting, Port Authority and NY State DOT officials claimed that truck traffic increases at the Tap...
Westchester HOV is Dead: Long Live HOV? In recent weeks we've written about the NY State DOT's efforts to plan an HOV lane network on Long Island. An older planning effort we haven't covered since April, 1996 (MTR #73) recently recommended ...
Paying for Hudson Valley Transit When Governor Pataki cancelled the Cross-Westchester Expressway (I-287) HOV lane project, he established a task force to develop other transportation options in the travel corridor. An early job for t...
Around the Region: Weighty Trucks Trucks and buses way the weight limit of Westchester County bridges are pounding many of them into a fragile state. Many bridges over Metro-North tracks are rated for less than 10 tons, but th...
Around the Region: Hartford Boom Times Economic growth in downtown Hartford has caught city leaders by surprise. Now some expanding companies say a shortage of affordable parking is causing them to consider moving to the suburbs. ...
Around the Region: New Jersey E-ZPass Delay While E-ZPass is wildly popular at Port Authority crossings from NJ to NYC, it will be longer than expected before motorists on New Jersey highways will be able to use the electronic tag...
Mobilizing the Nation Word from Washington says the Senate will return to the task of a multi-year reauthorization of ISTEA during the first week of February. Floor fights are expected over funding level...
