Toll Hike Debate Heats Up With a NJ Turnpike toll increase under discussion, the big question is whether drivers should pay for new Turnpike connectors that primarily serve land developers (see MTR #218). Among other things, ...
New Median Bus Lane For S.I.E. The NY State Department of Transportation recently announced it would build a new two mile bus lane in the median at the eastern end of the Staten Island Expressway (SIE) this summer, for use by the e...
CT To Train Riders: Show Us The Money With Connecticut DOT looking to increase fares for CT's Metro-North commuters as of August 1, critics of the plan say it runs counter to ConnDOT's plan to reduce traffic on the I-95 corridor (see MTR ...
Pieces In Transit Expansion Puzzle A Newsday piece that followed our coverage last week of the Federal Transit Administration's "not recommended" funding rating for the planned L.I. Railroad-Grand Central Terminal link noted that Senat...
NYC Transit's Service Struggles NYC Transit released its quarterly "passenger environment survey" at an MTA board committee meeting this week. Newspapers carried stories on the continuing decline of subway crime, the planned failure...
Transit Beat Loses An Ace The Daily News' Jim Rutenberg is leaving daily reporting to take a new assignment with the weekly NY Observer. For the past several years, the News, through Jim's work, has provided smart, effective, ...
NJ Oks Transportation, Bridge Funds On Monday, the NJ State Assembly approved two bills to raise the spending limit on the state Transportation Trust Fund and issue new bonds to fix bridges. The bills are now destined for the Senate. ...
Gowanus Fix Still Distant Prospect The maneuvering around Brooklyn's long-stalled Gowanus Expressway reconstruction project seems to be placing New York State DOT in an us-against-the-world position. Elected officials and community gro...
Long Island Pedestrians: Endangered Transportation policy and community groups Tuesday spotlighted high pedestrian fatality rates throughout Long Island and called for county and local officials and the NY State Department of Transporta...
Route 114: Traffic Calming Comes To L.I. NYS DOT's traffic calming demonstration project on Route 114 in Sag Harbor and North Haven is a model that could be replicated on other Long Island arterial roadways, like Straight Path. In late 199...
South Jersey Rail Shouldn't Be Light In the wake of the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) rejection of simultaneous operation of light rail vehicles and freight trains as proposed by NJ Transit for the Camden-Trenton light rail pro...
New Sanitation Commish Bucks Trash Trend Kevin Farrell, NYC Department of Sanitation's new commissioner, said at an April 29 hearing that he was seeking "Requests for Expressions of Interest" for ways to retrofit the NYC existing marine tran...
Citizens Blast Meadowlands Plan At a public meeting last week on the Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) for New Jersey's Hackensack Meadowlands, area residents opposed the SAMP's proposed wetlands losses and land use plans that hav...
Long Island's Transportation Future Tune into WLIW Channel 21 on May 19 from 8-9 pm to the Long Island Transportation Plan 2000 Televised Town Hall. Call in live during the show with comments, questions, and suggestions about Long Islan...
