Newark's Transportation Plan: Cars Only At a press conference on the steps of Newark City Hall Wednesday, Newark civic and community leaders criticized the Newark Transportation Plan's neglect of pedestrians, communities, mass transit, and ...
Still A Questionable Investment Statistics recently released by the NY State Dept. of Transportation indicate that, during the past year, peak hour use of the Long Island Expressway carpool (HOV) lanes increased by its largest annua...
Bad News From Washington Transit Funding Raid The full Senate seems likely to pass the Senate Transportation Appropriations Committee bill that would raid about $300 million in mass transit funding for New York and California...
Highway Deconstruction Alliance Grows Last month, the Bronx River Working Group of Partnerships for Parks - an alliance of fifty community groups and governmental agencies, including the city and state parks departments - urged the NY Sta...
Long Island's Forgotten Travelers Transportation policy and community groups Wednesday spotlighted high pedestrian fatality rates throughout Long Island and called the NY State Department of Transportation to devote more attention to ...
Slow Barge To Brooklyn One year after the federal government allocated $14 million for capital improvements to cross-harbor rail freight movement, no decisions have been made about where cash will be spent. Sources at bot...
NYC: Taking Traffic Calming To Next Level? The NY State DOT might be ignoring community concerns in its implementation of the "Downtown Brooklyn Area-Wide Traffic Calming Project," according to Transportation Alternatives magazine. It was tho...
Get Yours With the July 2 deadline for applying for bicycle and pedestrian project funding in NJ looming, the Campaign and the NJ League of Municipalities are distributing the Campaign's new pamphlet, "Funding ...
Around The Region According to the recent NJ Transit Executive Director's report, the agency is installing 60 bike lockers at seven Morris & Essex line train stations. In addition to the lockers, the agency recently in...
Around the Region NYC Transit is installing the first wave of MetroCard vending machines in NYC subway stations, making it easier to obtain the $4 Fun Pass, which is not sold at token booths but is available from the m...
Around the Region NJ Transit Wednesday took steps toward studying an extension of the South Jersey Light-Rail from Trenton's train station to the State House. It also agreed to spend $800,000 on designs to rebuild the ...
Around the Region Commuters who make the trek to and from the Rockaways, Queens on public transportation got some good news this week. $1.2 million in city funding has been allocated for the purchase of new, clean-runn...
Around the Region Environmental groups urged the US EPA Tuesday to broaden and speed up implementation of pollution reduction requirements for diesel trucks. They want the EPA to require engine makers to meet lower nit...
