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 ... 169
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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... 169 /19980410/mtr16904.htm Slow Speed: a Must Pass Bill for Albany April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16905.htm Road Rage Run Down ? April 10, 1998
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," ... 169 /19980410/mtr16906.htm Germany's Bicycle Boom April 10, 1998
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. ... 169 /19980410/mtr16907.htm Cycling Infrastructure for NYC Neighborhoods April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16908.htm Around the Region: NJ's Toll Tech Czar April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16909.htm Around the Region: Transit Union Tries to Schedule Election Re-Run April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16910.htm Around the Region: Raritan Valley Riders' Demands April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16911.htm Around the Region: April 10, 1998
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 ... 169 /19980410/mtr16912.htm ISTEA Watch April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16913.htm Goethals Pen-pals April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16914.htm Pricing on the Bridges? April 10, 1998
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... 169 /19980410/mtr16915.htm Internet Resources April 10, 1998
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... 169