Griffin
Line Goes Down This week, both the Capitol Region Council of Governments and
the Hartford City Council voted against the Griffin Line light rail
project as the preferred alternative for the Hartford-Bradle...
Court
Won't Block Waterfront Highway On Monday, a federal judge declined to enjoin NJDOT plans to
construct a limited access segment of NJ Route 29 that would wipe
out the remaining publicly accessible portions of Trenton's Del...
ISTEA-2
Moves Toward Finish The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure and Ways and
Means Committees approved the House's ISTEA-2 bill, known as BESTEA,
this week. The measure is expected win approval from the f...
Well-mannered
or Not, Time to Slow Down This week, NYC Mayor Giuliani declared the first-ever (modern
era) NYPD deployment against speeding motorists in decades a success, hopefully
leaving the door open for many more such actions. The ...
Slow
Speed Possibility for NJ Central NJ State Senator Robert Singer has introduced legislation
to amend a state statute that severely constrains municipalities' efforts
to control local speed limits. Current law says c...
Transit
Equity Denied A new report from the NYC Partnership and Chamber of Commerce,
the city's most influential business group, says New York State funding
for public transit increasingly favors upstate and subu...
Mega-Project
Moves Ahead Last week, the MTA ran newspaper ads seeking management, engineering
and environmental consultants for its proposed $3.5 billion connection
of the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Terminal...
Body
Count Rises with Highway Speed Limits Recent studies from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show surging highway
deaths in states that have raised speed limits. Ro...
Public
Safety vs. Road Lobby Security During every debate on every federal transportation bill, road
lobbyists argue that making roads larger makes them safer. However, according
to US DOT, the eight types of projects that make roads ...
Strange
Bedfellows Blast JFK Rail Project A coalition of civic and other interest groups rallied in front
of Port Authority offices Friday to oppose the PA plan for a rail link
between Jamaica Station and Kennedy Airport. The groups said...
NY
Truckers for Tax Relief The trucking industry in New York State says it pays more taxes
than its siblings in other states. The difference, it says, is the state
ton-mile tax on trucking. The NY Motor Tru...
Around
the Region: LIRR Ridership Booms The Long Island Railroad reported this month that ridership
in 1997 was the highest since 1985, and gave the railroad its third best
year since 1955. Total rides taken on the commuter syste...
Around
the Region: MetroCard, EZ Pass On-line ? NYC newspapers reported this week that the MTA is considering
MetroCard and EZ Pass sales over the Internet. Both the Long Island
Railroad and the NYC Transit Authority are actively ...
Around
the Region: Dedicated EZ-Pass Lanes MTA Bridges and Tunnels is considering dedication of an entire
lane of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to EZ-Pass users. The plan would
help reduce jockeying at the toll plaza between cash payers...
Around
the Region: Suffolk's Lost Parking Revenue A Newsday exposé this week found that motorists
failed to respond to ¾ of parking tickets assigned to Suffolk
County District Court. The ignored summonses could mean over $700...
Around
the Region: NJ Transit Prepares for Hamilton Station NJ Transit schedulers are beginning to grapple with the opening
next year of a new station in Hamilton, along the Northeast Corridor.
Issues include additional riders on the line an...
