Thanks
to Mayor, NYC Rediscovers Pedestrians and Debates Safety Will it end up as a textbook case of thesis, antithesis and
synthesis? Mayor Giuliani's imposition of pedestrian barriers, his reaction
to criticism by digging in and launching an anti-jaywalking camp...
State
of the Buses In its first-ever "state of the buses" report, released
yesterday, the Straphangers Campaign found that bus performance has deteriorated
badly compared to 1992 and that bus trips have been slashed by ...
10-point
Plan for Better Buses 1. Add more bus service to reduce waits and crowding. Bus ridership
is up 17% in the wake of free subway-bus transfers. NYC Transit has responded
with modest bus service restorations. But much more se...
City
Council Says Planning Gulf Threatens Metro Region A paper released Wednesday by the NYC City Council's Task Force
on Regional Planning says the metropolitan area must better plan transportation
and make investment in public transit a higher priority ...
NY
Leaders Back Rail Freight Improvements In his 1998 state of the city speech, delivered Wednesday, Mayor
Giuliani repeated the call he first made in his 1997 state of the city
address for construction of a rail freight tunnel under New York...
AROUND
THE REGION * Nassau County officials have agreed to move a statue memorializing
victims of drunk driving from its place near the county courthouse in Mineola.
Defense lawyers had filed suit arguing that the pie...
Hudson
Rail Tunnel Gaining Ground in NJ NJ State Senate President Donald DiFrancesco said this week
in remarks that laid out his legislative priorities for the new year that
he would ask the Senate Transportation Committee to begin an immed...
NJ
Clean Air Failure Yields Capital Plan Chaos The normally hectic deal-making that occurs between NJDOT and
local government representatives who comprise the North Jersey metropolitan
planning organization (MPO) has come to a screeching halt as t...
