Westchester Says Pataki Budget a Setback for Transit Westchester County officials warned this week of fare hikes and service cuts if Governor Pataki's proposal to cut state aid to the county's Bee-Line system becomes part of the NY state budget. The ...
Smart Tolls for New Jersey ? Drivers on the Garden State Parkway and the NJ Turnpike could face toll hikes of 20% or more over the next five years under a series of construction funding options being studied by state officials. T...
S.I. Grapples with Gridlock Staten Island occupies a unique place in the metropolitan region's transportation geography. As New York City's least populous and most remote borough, it has been and is neglected by public transit p...
NJ State Plan Ins and Outs The revision of New Jersey's State Plan -- which calls for reinvestment in city and town centers and protection of rural and open spaces - is winding to a close. This week in Trenton, advocacy groups ...
The Bronx Talks Transportation Unlike past meetings on transportation issues in the Bronx, Wednesday evening's "Bronx Town Hall on Transportation Plans and Programs" neither suffered from lack of attendance (over 100 people turned ...
NYC Speed Hump Program Slow But Steady Speaking at a press conference last week, New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Wilbur Chapman promised that the agency would continue to install speed humps as traffic calming measu...
Light Rail Cars Roll into New Jersey The first train cars produced for the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line and the Newark International Airport monorail extension arrived in NJ last week, marking a milestone in NJ's expansion of rail trans...
Around the Region NJ Transit has listened to a plea from Monmouth County NJ, and put on hold plans to tear down four bridges and a pedestrian tunnel along a proposed "rail trail" on an abandoned railroad bed between Ma...
Around the Region NYC Transit officials have discovered an alarming number of cracks in a key component of subway cars - a defect that authorities fear could cause derailments. The cracks are turning up in the undercar...
Around the Region After announcing support for the Port Authority's planned train to Kennedy Airport, Councilman Al Stabile (R-Ozone Park) has drawn a new promise from the agency: that it will study the practicality of...
Around the Region The United Industrial Corporation said last week that it has received a $71 million contract from New Jersey Transit to upgrade 116 commuter cars. United Industrial said that it would complete the wor...
