• Transport Politics: Govs Throw Bones to Travelers of All Stripes

    * Motor Voters After doing right by NYC transit riders with the recent announcement of unlimited-ride transit passes and last year’s free bus-subway transfers, NY Governor Pataki may have felt ...

  • 60 Extra Deaths: Who’s Responsible?

    NYC’s pedestrian-motorist wars moved from the midtown barriers to City Hall’s doorstep this week, as the Times joined Newsday in reporting that pedestrian deaths jumped by 25% ...

  • City Traffic Successes to Build On

    As we reported last week, the flap over Mayor Giuliani’s pedestrian barricades and where city traffic enforcement efforts are best placed is kindling traffic policy proposals from a number of quart...

  • Segmenting Super Seven

    Citizens for a Sensible Seven in the corridor from Norwalk to Danbury in western Connecticut have enlisted U.S. Rep. James Maloney to back their demand that any major expansion of U.S. Ro...

  • ConnDOT Seeks to End Griffin Line Debate

    ConnDOT appears to be seeking a final showdown with the Hartford metropolitan planning organization, the Capital Region Council of Governments (CRCOG), over the proposal to build the Griffin...

  • Wanaque Ends Quest for Bypass

    Officials in Wanaque, NJ have dropped support for a plan to double capacity on Passaic County Rte 511 (the "Ringwood Avenue Bypass") which would provide a high-volume connection from I-287 t...

  • Goethals Twin Moving Slowly, But Won’t Go Away

    At a NY Building Congress breakfast today, Port Authority executive director Robert Boyle did not mention the Goethals Bridge "twin" project among the many capital projects he described to construc...

  • Mobilizing the Nation: ISTEA Reauthorization; Transportation Injustice in Atlanta

    * The development of Congressional debate over ISTEA-2 this year may depend heavily on the House of Representatives’ budget resolution, usually voted on in spring. House Transportatio...