Issue 160 Table of Contents

February 6, 1998

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• NY Transit Equity Study Underscores MTA's Shaky Foundation
  This week, researchers at Columbia University released the study on NY transit financing equity mandated in the settlement of the suit brought by the Straphangers C...

• PA Says Approval of JFK Rail Funds Imminent
  Debate over the Port Authority's JFK-Jamaica light rail project continued Thursday at a forum convened by the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA. The Por...

• NJ DOT Sloth Gives Whitman "Bike 2000" Plan a Bad Start
  The Tri-State Transportation Campaign wrote to NJ Transportation Commissioner John Haley today, noting that, in spite of Governor Whitman's recent pledge to build 2,...

• Fighting Goethals Worth S.I. Political Credit
  According to a report in the Staten Island Advance, S.I. Borough President Guy Molinari is claiming credit for getting the $5 million in Goethals Bridge ...

• Community Design 101
  Last Thursday and Friday, over 150 transportation planners, traffic engineers, consultants, Long Island residents and transportation advocates gathered for a "Walk...

• Around the Region: Transport Workers Union Elections
  Transport Workers Union Local 100, the 33,000-member NYC Transit Authority union, will re-run elections for leadership offices in the wake of ballot fraud charges. Willie Ja...

• Around the Region: New Opportunity for CT Rail-Trail Advocates
  The Boston and Maine Railroad is seeking to abandon 9.5 miles of a rail line between Cheshire and Southington in Connecticut (south of Hartford). So far, the Surface Transportation Boar...

• Around the Region: West Siders Still Unhappy with 72nd St. Station Plan
  Following a request by NY State Assemblymember Scott Stringer that the State Transportation Safety Board inspect Manhattan's West 72nd Street station for hazardous conditions, the NYC Transit A...

• Around the Region: Private Buses Say They're Entitled to MTA Support
  Private express bus companies on Staten Island are urging their riders to petition the MTA for subsidies to permit them to compete with NYC Transit express buses, whose fares will fall by a dol...

• Is Rail the Solution for I-287 ?
  The Hudson Valley Regional Conference, a coalition of communities along I-287 in Westchester and Rockland Counties, is discussing rail solutions to the daily gridloc...

• Gas Taxes: Racing to the Bottom
  Gasoline prices are plummeting. Nationwide average pump prices are down 15 cents a gallon since last summer, due to warm winter weather, the Asian economic slowdown an...

• EZ Traffic Data
  Success of the experiment monitoring traffic speeds and flow using antennae to read EZ-Pass tags along I-287 west of the Tappan Zee Bridge is leading Transcom, a regio...

• Clinton's Transportation Budget
  According to a report by U.S. Representatives Charles Schumer and Nita Lowey, the Clinton Administration's proposed FY 1999 budget would increase transit funding fo...

• Town Leads the Way (to the station)
  A recent survey by Maplewood, NJ's transportation committee identified 56 residents who said they would bicycle to the NJ Transit station if it were equipped wit...

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