New Haven Fights Massive Bridge Expansion In January, the Connecticut Department of Transportation announced plans to double the size of the I-95 Quinnipiac River "Q" Bridge in New Haven to 10 lanes (see MTR #205). ConnDOT's plan ignored nume...
Getting Serious About Deadly Drivers Mayor Giuliani's campaign to seize the cars of drunk drivers caught by police commenced with less hand-wringing than might have been expected. Indeed, Suffolk and Nassau Counties have hastened to impl...
Transport Agencies Take Steps on Land Policy As "smart growth" becomes a watchword for the turn of the millenium, everyone wants to get in on the anti-sprawl act. Transportation reformers have long pointed to car/highway transportation as sprawl...
Why Not Walk? 1998 NYC traffic statistics reported recently in the NY Post: * The average speed of vehicles on Midtown avenues was 7.6 mph, 10% slower than the 1997's 8.4 mph. * Average vehicle speed on crosstow...
Planning For People, Not Trucks Civic leaders and citizens from all five NYC boroughs met on Tuesday to discuss a major threat to their neighborhoods - truck traffic. They focused on two major problems - the proliferation of trucks ...
Transit Wrapped Into Bergen Arches Proposal The Bergen Arches, an abandoned rail cut through Jersey City, NJ, saw its possible futures expand Monday to include public transit. In recent months, local government has pushed to convert the right-...
Route 92 Public Comment Period Begins The Army Corps of Engineers commenced a 6-week comment period Friday on the NJ Turnpike's proposal to build Route 92 across undeveloped wetlands. Comments can be written and mailed in, or voiced at a...
Trucks On The Loose The number of fatal accidents involving trucks in the United States is on the rise. Federal investigators are saying trucking regulators do not adequately monitor and enforce safety rules for trucking...
Truckers Join Rail Competition Fight A fight could be simmering between railroad and trucking interests as the debate over rail competition and access heats up in Washington. As it stands now, truckers say they cannot increase their pr...
Commuter Rail's Success Nears Ceiling On Tuesday, NJ Transportation Commissioner James Weinstein and NJ Transit's Executive Director Edward Gross unveiled a plan to ease crowding at NY's Penn Station for NJ Transit riders. Construction of...
Around the Region - Straphangers Posters Win Awards The ad agency that designed the Straphangers Campaign's posters assailing slow service and overcrowding on NYC buses and subways took first-place honors at this year's Pollie Awards, an award of the p...
Around the Region - CB #4 Wants Musical Intersections Columbus Circle, with vehicles merging from three busy streets, is one of the most difficult to cross intersections in NYC. In February, Manhattan's Community Board #4 asked the city to install audibl...
Around the Region - Charter Bus Drivers Working Illegal Hours Drivers of charter buses in the region - like some of those that ply the NYC-Atlantic City route, work illegally long hours and cover it up with a fake log books, according to an investigation by the ...
