Gas
Tax Talk in NJ The Whitman Administration and the NJ Legislature are considering
a gas tax increase to fund transportation infrastructure and
possibly open space acquisition, according to the...
PA
Opts for Joint Operation of S.I. Railroad The Port Authority announced last week the selection of CSX
and Norfolk Southern Railroads to jointly operate the
Staten Island Railroad between Arlington Yard and Cranford Jun...
Targeting
Trucks Conrail's purchasers indeed assert that the single-carrier
service they will be able to provide along the east coast and on some
routes into the Midwest after they absorb Conrail's assets wi...
Transit's
Numbers Confirm NYC Bus Gap NYC Transit bus ridership data indicates that while bus ridership
climbed 9.4% between 1996 and 1997, Transit actually scheduled fewer "revenue
miles" of service in 1997 (a .6% drop). ...
More
Buses: Pitfall and Solution NYC Transit may face opposition to increasing its bus fleet
if it continues to deploy polluting diesel buses in asthma-stricken
neighborhoods.
Deadly
Routes to School Renee James, mother of Terrell James, the 8 year old killed
by a car speeding to a highway on-ramp last March near his school in Newark,
testified in Trenton this week in favor of a bill that would ba...
LITP
2000 Update As we had predicted, NYSDOT showed its road construction bias
when it revealed a proposal for a Long Island "interconnected HOV
lane system" at a recent citizens meeting for its &q...
Citizens
Voice More Reasons to Stop Rt. 29 NJDOT's intention to build Route 29 along the Delaware would
rip out the last accessible portion of Trenton's waterfront and
increase area traffic. Water access now used for fishing, swimmin...
Port
in a Storm ? Two of the Port of NY/NJ's largest shipping carriers have asked
other major North Atlantic ports for guidelines for constructing a large
jointly-operated container terminal. The request was issued...
