• Should Drivers Pay for Developers’ Roads?
     According to Wednesday's Star Ledger, a NJ Turnpike Authority proposal to raise tolls could be announced within the next 60 days. Much of the toll hike would finance new road construction projects lik...

  • E-ZPass: How To Make Toll Booths History
     Two legislators from Morris County, NJ proposed this week to remove at least some of the 11 main toll plazas on the Garden State Parkway. The lawmakers want to relieve the stop-and-go traffic that pla...

  • Towns: Foundation Of Route 92 Opposition
     While the Turnpike Authority looks to raise tolls to finance big construction projects, NJ towns continue to battle the largest Turnpike Authority construction project of them all - Route 92. Manville...

  • CT Cities Yield To 10 Lane Q-Bridge
     Last week, mayors constituting CT's South Central Regional Council of Governments approved a massive I-95 highway widening project. The vote allows Conn-DOT to proceed with doubling the size of the Ne...

  • NYC Planning: Millennium Or Mid-Century?
     Declaring "it is time to adapt zoning to the realities of the automobile," Joe Rose, NYC Dept. of City Planning Chairman, outlined at an April 20th City Hall hearing an overhaul of the city's zoning c...

  • Time For Glasnost At The PA
     The cross-Hudson political blow up over Port Authority finances demonstrates once again a fundamental PA weakness. The multi-billion dollar agency whose investments profoundly shape metropolitan econo...

  • Booming Truck Industry Wants Tax Relief
     A truckers' organization, the Owner-Operator/Independent Drivers' Association has sued New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for fuel tax rebates for mileage driven on toll roads, according to the Jour...

  • Route 29, "Super 7": Roads To Ruin
     The Route 29 project in Trenton and Connecticut's "Super 7" expressway are two of the most wasteful highway projects in the nation, according to a report released Wednesday by Taxpayers for Common Sen...

  • Sprawl Solution: More Development ?
     At a four-day "Regional Center Vision" conference last week in Somerset County NJ, the Regional Plan Association (RPA) joined state, county, and local representatives to look at Somerville, Raritan an...

  • Around the Region
     The MetroCard is now on the Internet. As of last week, straphangers can buy daily, weekly, monthly and pay-per-ride cards on the world wide web. Minimum purchase price is $15. Cards are delivered by m...

  • Around the Region
     A new survey of NYC AAA members shows that city motorists now fear aggressive drivers more than drunk ones, according to the Daily News. Drunk drivers had previously occupied the #1 spot, but 55% of ...

  • Around the Region
     Planners in the New Haven area are trying to revive plans to build a Metro-North train station in either Orange or West Haven. Herb Burstein, deputy director of CT's South Central Regional Council of ...

  • Around the Region
     At a meeting of the Central Jersey Transportation Forum last week, one mayor proposed deliberately neglecting roads and bridges to steer heavy truck traffic away. A concerned NJDOT representative coun...

  • Around the Region
     Peter Pan Bus Lines recently received an award from the Connecticut Bicycle Coalition and the League of American Bicyclists for convincing Greyhound Bus Lines to adopt Peter Pan's "stow it for free" p...

  • Next Stop: Tarrytown
     The I-287 Task Force, an advisory panel created by Governor Pataki last year to find traffic reduction strategies in NY's Westchester and Rockland Counties, is considering a plan to add a second Metro...