Choked By Commuter Rail Success, New Jersey Talks Tunnels And Trains With regional transit ridership booming and the sole rail tunnel connecting NJ to NY near capacity, local transportation planners and state and federal officials are scrambling to build a transportati...
Bridge Rehabs Prime Time For Transportation Alternatives With simultaneous repair work slated for this summer on the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg Bridges and anticipated traffic nightmares for anyone crossing the East River, the time is ripe for NY...
Sprawl = Death Aggressive driving is worst in places where sprawling development and poor access to mass transit force drivers into their cars, according to a report released this week by the Surface Transportation ...
Road Accidents Outstrip War, HIV Deaths Road accidents will kill or disable more people worldwide than war, tuberculosis or HIV by 2020, the International Red Cross said in its annual disaster report. As reported in the International Bicycl...
Bronx Study Shows Promise, But Falls Short This week the NY State Department of Transportation released its "Existing Conditions and Problem Identification Report" on the Bronx Arterial Needs Major Investment Study. The report thoughtfully ana...
Around the Region Amtrak is betting much of its future - and that of high-speed rail in the U.S. - on its new 150-mph trains, named "Acela," on the Boston-NY-DC Northeast Corridor. The trains will chop 90 minutes off i...
Around the Region South Bronx community activists this week welcomed a federal investigation into whether a high concentration of garbage transfer stations in their neighborhoods is a civil rights violation. In respons...
Around the Region President Clinton last week proposed devoting $1 billion a year to preserve urban parks, wildlife areas and other "precious lands" across the United States. The plan, which must pass muster in the Rep...
Around the Region The New York City Council yesterday acted to take some of the punch out of Mayor Giuliani's iron-fisted taxi laws, a move that administration officials blasted as "abysmal." The Council's Transportati...
Save the Date for Traffic Calming A Free Traffic Calming Seminar hosted by Scenic Hudson Learn about traffic calming design, project funding, construction of bicycle/pedestrian facilities, innovative transportation trends, and people-...
