Issue 235 Table of Contents

September 3, 1999

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• Lautenberg's Toll Booth Fury
  At a press conference this week, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg sketched out a three-point plan for tolls on New Jersey roads - complete the installation of E-ZPass by January 1, ensure all to...

• MTA's MESA Going Half-Way
  In August, the MTA released its Manhattan East Side Alternatives (MESA) Major Investment Study/Draft EIS. The four-year MESA study was supposed to examine ways to improve transit on Manhattan's ea...

• NYC Transit Offers Variety, But Will It Offer More CNG buses or Service?
  The New York Times reported this week that NYC Transit is diversifying its 4,300 bus fleet with over-the-road, low-floor and extra long buses with accordion pleats in the middle known as art...

• Citizens Protest Lack of Info On Nassau Hub
  NYMTC and the Nassau Cnty. Planning Dept. officials held a hearing on funding for a Nassau (LI) Hub Major Investment Study. However, neither agency provided any information about the substance of ...

• More Elevated Ramps for the Bronx
  Last October, the NY State DOT proposed to build a new elevated highway connection between the Bronx River Parkway and the Sheridan Expressway in the West Farms section of the Bronx (MTR 181...

• Anti Sprawl Forces Sprawl North
  Last week, approximately two hundred citizens attended a rally, organized by Community Action Network, to protest New York State DOT's plan to widen the Columbia Turnpike. The four-lane a...

• Newark Travels Toward a Greenway
  Last week, the City of Newark unveiled an ambitious bicycle "greenway" proposal as part of the city's overall transportation plan. Newark, New Jersey's largest and most dangerous city for p...

• Newark Transport Plan Still Lacking, Though Improved
  At a lengthy presentation on the revised Newark Economic Development, Transportation and Land Use Plan at Newark City Hall recently, Campaign staff and community activists in Newark found a few ben..

• Around the Region: New NJ-NY Ferry Route
  New York Waterway was the only ferry operator to bid on a new ferry service between Middletown, NJ and Manhattan. A new terminal will be built in the Belford neighborhood with $8.5 million ...

• Around the Region: Williamsburg Bridge Subway Project Finished Early
  On Wednesday the MTA opened the newly reconstructed J, M and Z lines over the Williamsburg Bridge a month early. 90,000 straphangers use the subway daily to commute between Brooklyn and Manhat...

• Around the Region: Easier Walking at Grand Central
  On August 18^th, MTA opened Grand Central North - an underground tunnel system that lets passengers walk from Metro-North RR platforms north as far as 48^th Street. The tun...

• Around the Region: NYers Like Cheap PATH
  Although Mayor Giuliani has often criticized the subsidies that the PATH train riders receive from the Port Authority, a Quinnipiac College poll released last week that questioned New York City reside...

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