Court Re-Opens JFK Rail Fund Debate The Port Authority of NY & NJ's "air train" project from Jamaica to JFK Airport was dealt a setback last week by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. The court ruled that t...
Route 92 Fight In Home Stretch ? Opponents are continuing the fight to block construction of Route 92, the proposed 6.7-mile highway linking the NJ Turnpike with Route 1 in Middlesex County. Project foes hope the Army Corps of Engi...
Killed By Automobile As several city dailies reported today, the pedestrian and bicyclist rights organization Right of Way (see MTR #204) released a new report detailing findings from extensive analysis of New York City p...
NJ Ready To Launch Traffic Calming Projects NJ DOT is nearing the end of its state-wide Pedestrian Safety Study. The effort looked at pedestrian injuries and fatalities across the state, and identified a handful of persistent problem sites for ...
East River Bike Access Looking Up ? The current Transportation Alternatives magazine says NYC officials will re-implement a 24-hour bike/pedestrian lane on the Queensboro Bridge in September. Bike and ped access to the bridge, the only ...
Hopewell On Slippery Sprawl Slope Hopewell Township, NJ's reluctance to endorse a massive highway interchange on I-95 near Trenton has stalled the project for now. The interchange is designed to accommodate a big new sprawling, car de...
Strong L.I. Support For Cross-Harbor Rail Long Islanders responding positively to a Saturday Newsday opinion piece by John McHugh favoring construction of a rail freight tunnel under NY Harbor included business, planning and political figures...
Around The Region NJ DOT bowed to pressure from local activists and government officials seeking to preserve a 5-mile undeveloped corridor once set aside to be part of Route 31 north of Trenton. Instead of trying to ge...
Around the Region Proximity to Metro-North's Beacon station has helped an old box factory get the nod as the site for a new museum run by the Dia Center for the Arts. Easy access to public transit generally increases t...
Around the Region Bar owners on Staten Island's south shore are complaining that the city's new policy of confiscating suspected drunk drivers' cars and new police checkpoints along main roads hurt their business. But ...
Around the Region Metro-North Railroad may confine blabbing cell phoners to one car per train. Railroad officials say they are receiving a half-dozen complaints of loud-mouthed phone talkers per week, "which probably r...
Lecture Announcement: The Spread-Out Metropolis The Spread-Out Metropolis: The Demise of HOVs and Other Options to Automobility? Speaker Robert Cervero is a Professor of City Planning at U.C. Berkeley and a nationally-recognized expert on the inter...
