Giuliani
Announces Major Traffic Calming Step New York City announced Tuesday it would begin systematic efforts
to install traffic calming devices and other plans and rules to slow
traffic near schools. Mayor Giuliani and acting ...
The
Line on NJ Rail Politics v Montclair town officials settled
their long-standing fight with NJ Transit this week, opening the way for
the 1,200 foot Montclair Connection project first proposed ...
Brooklyn
Reps Call for Car Free Prospect Park NYC City Council members say Prospect Park, Brooklyn's most
renowned and cherished open space, should be free of car traffic this summer.
The park's Frederick Law Olmstead design features...
Slow
Speed: a Must Pass Bill for Albany The NY State legislature's transportation committees and top
leadership should promote the Slow Speed bill now pending in Albany (A3969,
S6872) to "must pass" status for the current session. The bi...
Road
Rage Run Down ? Almost nothing has been heard from Albany lately about the "Road
Rage" legislation Governor Pataki announced with legislators in mid-February.
The bill creates a new crime of "aggressive driving," ...
Germany's
Bicycle Boom The current Transportation Quarterly carries an article
by Rutgers University planning professor John Pucher that documents a dramatic
20-year increase in bicycle transportation in Germany. ...
Cycling
Infrastructure for NYC Neighborhoods One of NYC's pro-bicycling programs ("CityRacks")
has slowly installed several hundred bicycle racks along sidewalks throughout
the five boroughs. Transportation Alternatives is trying to gi...
Around
the Region: NJ's Toll Tech Czar New Jersey Transportation Commissioner John Haley has appointed
Carol Hollows as the state's overseer of EZ-Pass implementation. Hollows,
a veteran of NJ's Treasury Dept. and NJ DOT, is to see that...
Around
the Region: Transit Union Tries to Schedule Election Re-Run Transport Workers Union Local 100, representing NYC Transit
bus, subway and other workers, is seeking to schedule the re-run of its
union elections for May, though the dissident New Directions grou...
Around
the Region: Raritan Valley Riders' Demands Riders of NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line included fixed up
stations, better station drop-off and ticket purchasing areas and new train
cars in their wish list of rail line improvements. After ext...
Around
the Region: Governor Rowland has followed through on his intention to invited
US EPA Administrator Carol Browner to tour ConnDOT's proposed site for
the Route 6 freeway east of Hartford. EPA and other federal ...
ISTEA
Watch President Clinton again criticized the spending levels in Congress'
ISTEA reauthorization bills this week. At an event promoting his education
plans, Clinton criticized Republicans he said would ra...
Goethals
Pen-pals In response to a leading Staten Island conservation group's
objections to the Port Authority's proposal to construct a second Goethals
Bridge, agency chief Robert Boyle wrote back recently with a c...
Pricing
on the Bridges? Mr. Boyle's letter to the Staten Island groups also confirms
the agency's wariness about congestion relief pricing on its bridges -
and reiterates that perceived political difficulties are the reas...
Internet
Resources 1000 Friends of Oregon's nationally acclaimed LUTRAQ (Land Use,Transportation,
Air Quality) project is on-line. LUTRAQ has been an important part of the
emergence of innovative regional planning in...
