Route 92 on the Ropes On Monday, the Whitman Administration attempted to salvage the beleaguered NJ Turnpike Authority proposal to build Route 92 between Route 1 and the Turnpike. New Jersey environmental regulators had ...
Another Twist For JFK Rail Funding The Port Authority's "air train" project from Queens to JFK Airport could receive help on Capitol Hill. Pending legislation could render moot the PA's recent legal setback (see MTR #212) regarding its...
Weinstein Starts Drive For Gas Tax Consensus At a Tuesday State Senate hearing, NJ DOT Commissioner James Weinstein launched the possibility of a gas tax increase to finance future transportation projects. "The gas tax is the obvious choice," he...
Organizing Works NYC transportation and parks officials announced Wednesday that weekday hours when cars are permitted to use the roadway in Brooklyn's Prospect Park would be significantly scaled back. The officials ...
Conn Dot Offers Weak Transit Improvements In an effort to persuade New Haven area municipal leaders to support an $800 million project to widen I-95 and New Haven's "Q" Bridge (see MTRs #205, 209), the CT Department of Transportation has offe...
Parochial Pols Limit NJ Train Capacity With NJ Transit adding train cars in response to the ridership boom, the agency is trying to address a capacity issue that has loomed for years: limited space in train yards. At a March board of dir...
Killed By Truck Killed by Automobile, the report by Right of Way profiled here in recent weeks, found that from 1994-1997, 26% of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities in New York City were caused by trucks. Small or ...
Whither Clean Air For New Jersey? Despite its declining commitment to reducing air pollution from highway vehicles, New Jersey appears unlikely to be significantly affected in the near term by the recent federal ruling regarding consi...
Around The Region: NYC Transit Cleans Up About 1,000 "Work Experience Program" workers who work for their welfare checks will be employed part-time mopping, sweeping, and removing trash in New York City's subways as early as this month. The...
Around the Region: Stamford Begins Work on Pedestrian Walkway Stamford Connecticut began work on a pedestrian link between the city's train station and downtown area. The planned 8,200-square-foot enclosed walkway will lead pedestrians from the train station to ...
Around the Region: Fresh Kills Bypass? Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari told the S.I. Chamber of Commerce recently that he wants to see the roads inside Fresh Kills Landfill opened to the public after the dump is closed in 2001...
Around the Region: NYC Subway Crime Drops Total NYC subway crime has plummeted 17 percent this year - despite a wave of recent slashings and two murders - transit officials said last week. Assaults dropped 16 percent through the end of Februa...
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...
