Central
New Jersey Echoes EPA on Route 92 According to recent press reports, October 26 is d-day for Governor
Whitman and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to decide
whether or not to proceed with the NJ Turnpike...
Groups,
Officials Say Stop LIE Expansion The Tri-State Transportation Campaign and 30 Long Island, Queens
and NYC organizations wrote to Governor Pataki this week, urging
state government to call off plans to extend the Long...
Slow
Track NY State DOT and Harlem River Ventures opened the long-awaited
Oak Point Link freight rail track in the Bronx this week. In the
works since the late 1970s, the 2-mile track segment..
Times
Backs HOT Concept In an editorial last weekend that noted a "regional retreat
from carpooling," the NY Times urged transportation agencies
to allocate the road capacity represented by under-utili...
Good
Air Day for Pataki, NYC Yesterday, NY Governor Pataki signed into law legislation requiring
emissions testing for heavy diesel-powered vehicles and announced state
environmental bond act funding for 200 new clean-fuel tra...
Bronx
Wants its Due From Metro-North South Bronx elected and civic leaders demanded improvements
to Metro-North Railroad's dismal underground Melrose Station at a Metro-North
Railroad Commuter Council "president's forum" thi...
Wrong
Project, Wrong Era At a meeting this week, Bronx elected and civic leaders protested
a plan to build an elevated highway connector over 177th Street from
the Bronx River Parkway to the Sheridan Expressway. The...
End
the Crawl, End the Crush As a part of its campaign to win increased transit service
to accommodate recent big jumps in NYC bus and subway ridership, the
Straphangers Campaign will be handing tens of thousands...
Success
¹More Cars Hoboken has decided it will thrive without cramming excessive
parking into its downtown. The city has joined Harding and Long Branch
in receiving an exemption from New Jersey's Uniform Re...
Operation
Downtown Across Long Island, local officials, business leaders and citizens
are trying to regain what Hoboken still has. Since 1997, Nassau County
has supplied modest funding to over half a dozen communiti...
NY
Commuter Rail Riders Speak The annual rider survey of Long Island Railroad service by the
LIRR Commuters Council found that of the 45 indicators on which the LIRR
was graded, 33 grades stayed the same as 1997 and 12 changed,...