Governor
Whitman Slams Brakes on Trucks On Tuesday, Governor Whitman stopped many big trucks from plying
local NJ highways. Using an emergency order effective today, she banned
interstate truck traffic on secondary highways like R...
New
Jersey Supports Gov., Wants More Because the truck ban applies only to 102-inch-wide trucks and
does not restrict the more common 96-inch trucks, many say the ban does
not go far enough. Hopewell Township Deputy Mayor M...
Coalition
Offers Long Term Solutions A diverse coalition - including the Tri-State Campaign - assembled
in Trenton yesterday to recommend revisions to New Jersey's trucking regulations
and provide permanent solutions to the state's...
Truck
Plague Felt All Over At a meeting called to debate the truck problem in lower Manhattan,
Congressman Jerrold Nadler said tolling trucks on the Williamsburg and
Manhattan Bridges could reduce incentive for truckers to l...
NYC
Transit Lags on Clean Fuel In a letter sent Wednesday to the MTA and NYC Transit, eight
organizations led by the Natural Resources Defense Council said the MTA
had failed to meet its commitment to introduce hundreds o...
Gowanus
Buses Bogged Down Traffic in the Gowanus Expressway HOV lane is getting bad enough
that the NY State DOT is considering a boost in the minimum occupancy
requirement from 2 to 3 passengers. The HOV lane feeds ...
State
Seeks Clampdown on North Jersey MPO With the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (TPA
- the Metropolitan Planning Organization) about to undergo federal review,
Governor Whitman's June veto of the organization's ...
Disconnect
of the Week NY State DOT announced it would spend $200 million to
install "smart" variable message signs on the city's major
highways to notify motorists of tie-ups. Meanwhil...
Big
Railroad Blues Service problems, including low train speeds and slow freight
car switching operations, have plagued CSX and Norfolk Southern
Railroads since they carved Conrail and integrated it int...
Bay
Ridge Street Plan - More Cars In reaction to NY State DOT's projections for increased traffic
during Gowanus Expressway reconstruction, and to a parking shortage in
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the Bay Ridge Development Corp. developed...
