NJ
Gas Tax: NJDOT Prepares Pro-Sprawl Spending Plan The Whitman Administration has rejected the concept of including
program and spending prescriptions in its reauthorization of New Jersey's
Transportation Trust fund (which Governor Whitman says req...
Government
by Tabloid With remarkable speed, New Jersey politicians are buckling under
the pressure of the Star Ledger's front page "Lanes of Pain"
campaign to decommission the carpool lanes on I-287...
Trucks
and the Bronx' Highway to Nowhere The Tri-State Campaign and Bronx groups recently proposed that
NY dig up the Sheridan Expressway and make it into a park rather
than spend $245 million to fix its interchange with the Bruckn...
Passing
into History Though likely to revolutionize the way New Yorkers use and regard
public transit, NYC Transit's new monthly and weekly MetroCard unlimited
ride transit passes got off to a relatively unevent...
LIRR's
Subway Riders While much attention has focused on the booming ridership, new
unlimited ride passes and service problems of NYC Transit, the MTA also
reports increased commuter rail ridership and strong use of...
No
Need for Jams During Goethals Rehab The Tri-State Transportation Campaign recently sent the Port
Authority a set of proposals for easing traffic at the Goethals Bridge
during an upcoming deck rehabilitation. In an attempt to bolster...
SIE
Study Group Looks at Transit and Pricing Citizens attending a Staten Island Expressway study advisory
committee meeting this week were presented with several transit proposals
and an introduction to congestion relief pric...
NYC's
Truck Rules: Unenforced Last week, we noted that communities from Trenton to the Triborough
Bridge are fed up and want relief from truck traffic. The current
Transportation Alternatives magazine tells the s...
Traffic
Solution: Community Organizing Transportation Alternatives also tells the story of a Bronx
community that has tamed traffic with new pedestrian safety installations
on some of its streets. The University We...
Jitneys
Set NJ Trend At a Tri-State Campaign press conference July 2nd, Congressman
Donald Payne announced $2.5 million for jitney-rail feeder programs
and bike and pedestrian access improvements to rail station...
Mobilizing
the Nation: Pricing Sprawl Lancaster, California, north of Los Angeles, has developed a
market-based alternative to growth boundaries. The city charges
for the expense of providing services to far-flung sites - levies f...
Mobilizing
the Nation: Highway Industry Staffs Up The Wall Street Journal reported this week that highway
contractorsare staffing up in anticipation of more work following
Congress' and President Clinton's authorization of re...
