• What Sort of Toll Increase?
     The Star-Ledger's report today that New Jersey transportation officials are considering toll increases makes it clear that any hike would largely pay for big highway construction projects like Route 9...

  • Bus Blockers Beware
     At a Wednesday forum on bus service convened by the NYC Transit Riders Council, one of the groups making up the MTA Permanent Citizens Advisory Council, NYC Transit and police officials outlined steps...

  • Truck Issues: Pedestrians, Pollution, and Property
     In a letter delivered last Friday, eighteen New York City Council Members and twenty-five community and advocacy groups from across New York City called on the NYC Department of Transportation to redu...

  • NJ Transit Devoted to Diesel
     Although Senator Frank Lautenberg earmarked $12 million to buy clean fuel buses for NJ Transit in the 1998 federal transportation budget, the agency is sticking with dirty diesels. Although details ...

  • Route 92 Public Comment Period Extended
     In response to many requests , the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has extended the public comment period for its consideration of a Route 92 wetlands permit until April 22. The controversial Route 92 p...

  • Car-Free Commuter Rail
     New Jersey Transit's (NJT) Community Rail Shuttle Challenge Grant program is finally bearing fruit for three towns along NJT's Morris & Essex Line. Maplewood, West Orange and Springfield have receive...

  • Killed By Men
     Press coverage intensified this week for, Killed by Automobile, the new report by the pedestrian advocacy group Right Of Way. On Monday the Daily News and four local TV newscasts reported that among t...

  • Jersey City Flirts With Density
     At a standing-room only presentation in Jersey City's city hall last week, residents, planning officials, and architects joined new urbanism pioneer Andres Duany to view the outcome of a weeklong desi...

  • Beacon of Hope
     Across and up the Hudson, land on the Beacon waterfront owned by Scenic Hudson will also host transit-oriented development. Scenic Hudson hopes to preserve several parcels of land on the Long Dock pen...

  • B-U-S Spells Relief for Verrazano Woes
     With a big 5-year bridge repainting effort causing a lane closure and traffic headaches on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the Staten Island bus drivers union has renewed its call for Verrazano bus lane...