Table of Contents for MTR #181

Mobilizing the Region

Issue 181 Table of Contents

July 17, 1998

An Old Line on Pricing
In a letter to the NY Post this week, the Automobile Club of New York reiterates its long-standing claim that those who drive to work in New York do it because they have to, not becau...

Whitman Administration Muzzles Rte 29 Foe
NJDOT and the NJ Tidelands Resource Council have scheduled a re-hearing for a permit for DOT's Route 29 construction project, which will pave over the last accessible part of Trenton's waterfron...

NJDOT Can't Use $12.6 Million -Seeks Gas Tax Hike, but Hands Dough to Toll Road -
In response to NJDOT's assertion that no repair projects on roads under state or local jurisdiction are ready to move forward other than those already fully funded, the Board of the N...

Whitman Woos Democrats In Fight for Gas Tax
The Black Ministers Council of NJ endorsed Governor Whitman's call for a gas tax hike, accepting the Governor's arguments that the increase would mean projects and better transportation f...

New York May Boost Sheridan, Bronx Highway Traffic With New Link
The New York State DOT's response to the proposal by Bronx groups, the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance and the Tri-State Campaign to decommission the Sheridan Expressway and turn it into ...

Harbor Railroad Network to Get New Links
The Port Authority is developing plans to provide a rail link between Staten Island's Howland Hook Marine Terminal and Ports Newark and Elizabeth. The link would be established by bu...

Policing NYC's Bus Lanes
NYPD brass say they'll stop police officers from parking personal vehicles in the Second Avenue bus lane on Manhattan's East Side. Responding to a letter from the Straphangers Campai...

Won't Stem the Tide
NYC Transit was set to announce Monday it would add some subway and bus service in response to growing NYC transit ridership. Transit will add 10 train trips to weekday service, on the A, N...

NJ Reps Hear HOV Perspectives
Congressmen Bob Franks and Rodney Frelinghuysen convened a hearing Monday to discuss the future of HOV lanes in New Jersey. A Star Ledger campaign has whipped up a movement to open the ...

Bayonne Port Development Looking Up
The election of a new mayor in Bayonne may bode well for establishment of a container port with direct rail freight links at the soon-to-be-closed Military Ocean Terminal (MOTBY) peninsula....