• Turnpike Looks Ahead to High Speed EZ Pass
     The NJ Turnpike Authority says it will install a high-speed toll collection system at at least one Turnpike Interchange. NJ Turnpike Exit 6 at the PA Turnpike Extension, currently under construction,...

  • Budget Changes Gravy for Suburban Transit
     In an amendment made last week, Governor Pataki added nearly $53 million in transit funds to his proposed fiscal year 2000 NY State budget. The added funds more than make up for transit reductions ind...

  • Transit's Happy Present, Bright Future? - Subways, Subway Expansion Popular-
    A Quinnipiac College poll released Thursday found that by a 78-13 percent margin, a sample of New York voters support the idea of creating a Second Avenue subway line. Asked if they would support the...

  • NJ DOT Construction Plan Charts New Directions
     NJDOT's draft 2000 Capital Construction Program outlines DOT's proposed highway spending for the next three years and is due to the Legislature on March 1st. It indicates that DOT is recognizing the ...

  • Transit-Chek on Track for City Workers?
     The NYC City Council is set to approve a bill that will require city government to provide federal tax benefits (know locally as the "TransitChek" program) to city employees. The Council's Transportat...

  • NJ DOT Says Bypass OK for Princeton
     NJ DOT released a report last week measuring the impact the of the proposed Millstone Bypass on Princeton and West Windsor. The report projected traffic patterns into 2022 and concluded that the bypas...

  • Feds to Look at Region's Planning
     Federal transit and highway officials will conduct their triennial review of metropolitan transportation planning in New Jersey and New York this summer. Federal transportation law requires the FHW...

  • Brooklyn Wants Tougher Look at Trucks
     Brooklyn activists and at least one elected official have begun ripping into the New York City DOT's request for proposals on truck routing (see MTR #199). They are outraged that a request for propos...

  • NJ Demands More Transit
     New Jersey citizens are rising to the cause of busting traffic congestion by demanding more and better transit options. At a recent "Central Jersey Transportation Forum," organized by the Delaware Val...

  • U.S. Drivers Say Fix it First
     According to the Surface Transportation Policy Project's Transfer, a recent survey by the infrastructure advocacy group, Rebuild America Coalition, found that drivers are more willing to pay additiona...

  • Around the Region -- NYC Transit Rejects Late Night Token Booths in Bronx
     NYC Transit has given thumbs down to nightly restaffing of at least one token booth on the five-station Dyre Avenue stretch of the #5 train in the north Bronx. After Transit's $379 million surplus was...

  • Around the Region -- NJ Could Lower Speed Limit for Trucks
     The speed limit for trucks and buses would be lowered to 55 miles per hour on roads with a limit of 65 mph for other vehicles under a proposal made last week by NJ State Senator Joseph Vitale (D-Woodb...

  • Around the Region -- Southern Tier Expressway Changes
     New York transportation officials have completed an application to the federal government to turn the western half of Route 17 into Interstate 86. Eventually, the entire route from the Pennsylvania b...