NYC
Transit Could Have Difficult 1999 While the newspapers focused this week on the MTA's success
in pushing a policy of hiding its new $4 one-day city bus and subway passes
from regular transit riders, the bigger story is that the MTA 19...
Thruway
Will Push EZ-Pass Potential Last week we presented brief summaries of highway systems where
officials have configured electronic toll collection equipment to permit
motorists to pay tolls while proceeding at normal highway speed...
MTA
Toll Study Needed NYC City Council member Kathryn Freed held a press conference
this week to call for pedestrian improvements along Manhattan's Canal Street
and for restoration of tolls in both directions on the Verraz...
Towns
Seek to Escape Vicious Traffic Cycle With the HOV lanes abolished, a consortium of Morris County
towns and transportation groups hopes to study policies to restrain traffic
growth in the I-287 corridor. Possible options are transportatio...
Tunnel-Happy
Atlantic City Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan has developed a plan for another
new highway tunnel, this one leading from the Atlantic City Expressway
into the main casino area. A $330 million tunnel into the newer...
NJ
Bridge Bill a Stopgap for Transportation Trust Fund Renewal Since Governor Whitman floated the idea last spring for an increased
state gas tax to fund NJ's Transportation Trust Fund, the future of the
Trust Fund has quietly gained urgency in Trenton. Unoffici...
NJ
Commission Connects Roads and Sprawl The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, NJ Sierra Club and Delaware
Riverkeeper have won a delay in a New Jersey plan to take parkland for
new I-95 off-ramps to serve a controversial Merrill Lynch offi...
New
York Revisits Route 120 Widening NY State DOT has released supplemental studies for its project
to widen Route 120 from two to five lanes between Route 22 and I-684 in
eastern Westchester. The additional work, which focuses on preve...
Nassau
Opposition to HOV Lanes Grows On Wednesday, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Nassau
County Legislator Lisanne Altmann, the Village of East Hills, the Long
Island Progressive Coalition and several Nassau County community grou...
Road
Rage Rudy Channel 9 reporters who shadowed Mayor Giuliani's sport utility
vehicle and police escort reported last night that they observed the vehicles
routinely speeding, that the Mayor's cars ran lights sever...
New
Highways Don't Boost Economy Last week, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)
and the Brookings Institution's Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
hosted a seminar by Professor Marlon Boarnet of UC Irvine's Urban an...
Around
the Region Part of Port Authority's $1 billion plan to overhaul PATH includes
new automatic train controls that would cut PATH personnel on board to
one or zero, permitting speedier service with automated statio...
Around
the Region Crime in the NYC subway system plummeted 24% this year, according
to NYPD statistics. There was only one murder, down from four last year,
and 1451 fewer serious crimes were committed. Rape was the on...
Around
the Region State environmental officials say the proliferation of sport
utility vehicles (SUV) is making attainment of federal clean air goals
more difficult, and want the federal government to toughen SUV tailp...
Around
the Region According to North Jersey local officials, towns like Teaneck,
River Vale, Secaucus, Fort Lee, and Fair Lawn are plagued by commuters
who leave their cars in the towns and catch buses to New York City...
Heads
Up! Heads Up ! Coming soon in downstate NY: New York transportation
agencies - via the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council - will release
drafts of a new long-range transportation plan in mid January...
Help
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development, never-ending traffic, and choking air pollution in the Garden
State? If so, then sign up for our new NJ Transportation Ac...
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