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... 192 /19981016/mtr19202.htm Groups, Officials Say Stop LIE Expansion October 16, 1998
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... 192 /19981016/mtr19203.htm Slow Track October 16, 1998
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... 192 /19981016/mtr19204.htm Times Backs HOT Concept October 16, 1998
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... 192 /19981016/mtr19205.htm Good Air Day for Pataki, NYC October 16, 1998
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... 192 /19981016/mtr19206.htm Bronx Wants its Due From Metro-North October 16, 1998
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... 192 /19981016/mtr19207.htm Wrong Project, Wrong Era October 16, 1998
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... 192 /19981016/mtr19208.htm End the Crawl, End the Crush October 16, 1998
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... 192
/19981016/mtr19209.htm Success ¹More Cars October 16, 1998 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... 192
/19981016/mtr19210.htm Operation Downtown October 16, 1998 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... 192
/19981016/mtr19211.htm NY Commuter Rail Riders Speak October 16, 1998 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,... 192