• 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.

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  • 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 contractors are staffing up in anticipation of more work following Congress' and President Clinton's authorization of re...