Doing Less with Less ? The NJ Association of Rail Passengers, Transport Workers Union Local #2001 and NJPIRG Citizen Lobby joined the Campaign Wednesday to voice opposition to Governor Whitman's FY 2000 budget, which calls ...
MTA Pours Cold Water on Subway Plan In reaction to Regional Plan Association's MetroLink plan for new New York City subway services based on a Second Avenue tunnel, MTA Chairman E. Virgil Conway told the Journal-News it is unlikely that...
State Plan Would Repair Neglect, But Promote More Highways On February 10th, NJ's State Planning Commission development committee is meeting in Trenton to wrangle over the State Plan's transportation language (see Calendar for event details). The public meeti...
Diesels Will Crowd Out Clean Bus Benefits Just as clean fuel buses were poised to make a dent in the diesel pollution caused by NYC Transit's buses, the expansion of the bus fleet means that clean buses will not be replacing any diesels alrea...
E-Z Pass Should Be EZ-er NJ's current E-Z Pass boondoggle, replete with malfunctions, delays, contractor fines, and toll violators, has NJ drivers wondering why their state seems incapable of doing what NY did years ago. Init...
Community Hat-Trick for JFK Rail Queens Community Board 12 in Jamaica voted 26-8 last week to endorse the Port Authority's plan to build a rail link from Jamaica, Queens to JFK Airport. The vote came on the heels of approvals from ...
Thumbs Up for MTA Vending Machines Transit advocates say the MTA's new MetroCard vending machines, currently being tested at the Columbus Circle and 68th Street/Lexington Avenue stations, will prove a welcome boon to transit riders. T...
Railroad Issues Coming to Congress U.S. freight railroads, industrial shippers, and legislators in Washington are grappling with issues of railroad competition and this year's pending reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Board...
Around the Region Bridgewater, New Jersey residents say that a NJ DOT plan to set up a crosswalk in town is a disaster waiting to happen. The agency plans to paint a crosswalk at a section of Route 202/206, which pedes...
Around the Region The Clinton Administration announced this week that the federal government will provide 80% of the $147.3 million to build a light-rail link in downtown Newark between the Broad Street Station and New...
Around the Region According to a University of Pennsylvania medial researcher, a controversial gasoline additive meant to clean the air has had an unintended effect - a dramatic increase in asthma. Citing statistical a...
