Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concluded that Connecticut DOT's proposal to build a Route 6 expressway east of Hartford did not meet Clean Water Act guidelines. The Corps denie...

Governor Whitman's efforts to raise the New Jersey gas tax continue to get rough political treatment in Trenton, while the Tri-State Campaign's position on the gas tax gains ground.

The G...

In August, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority will begin to offer 15% off-peak toll discounts to trucking companies with Turnpike toll accounts. The Authority's aim is to reduce rush hour co...

Central NJ's Courier-News reports that the NJ DOT gets more complaints about trucks on local roads than about any other issue. "Route 31 is dangerous because it's so rutted,&quo...

This week, NYC DOT quietly announced the award of the consulting contract for the "Downtown Brooklyn Area-wide Traffic Calming Project." The $6 million CMAQ project may represent a wa...

The NY State DOT is expected to announce plans to add a bus lane to a portion of the Staten Island Expressway at a public meeting on the SIE Major Investment Study to be held Wednesday ni...

Members of the NJ Assembly representing the Trenton area have asked Governor Whitman and Assemblyman Richard Bagger, Chair of the Assembly's Appropriations Committee, to withdraw funding ...

NY State Senator Seymour Lachman has introduced legislation to require NY State to offer state workers the option of enrolling in TransitChek, the federal transit commuter tax benefit program. Dur...

In a reply opinion piece, NJ Transportation Commissioner John Haley accused the Star-Ledger and its "Lanes of Pain" crusade to abolish the carpool lanes on I-80 and I-287 (s...

A Newsday report this weekend on the MTA's pending incentive toll study contained the following upbeat quotes from public officials:

Cynthia Munk, NY State Thruway Authorit...

In June, Governor Pataki announced agreement with the NY legislature on a program to regularly test heavy duty diesel vehicles. Diesel-powered vehicles over 8,500 pounds in NYC, Long Island, and R...

Amtrak created an embarrassing public relations storm in June when one of its Empire Corridor trains abruptly went out of service in Hudson, 30 miles short of its Albany destination. Passengers to...

Newark is the pedestrian danger capital of NJ, according to NJ Dept. of Law and Public Safety data.

From 1990-1996, pedestrian deaths made up 29 percent of all traffic-rel...