Issue 236 Table of Contents

September 10, 1999

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• New York Business, Labor, Civic and Environmental Groups Outline 5-Year, $18 billion MTA Investment Program, Call for Major Transit Upgrades and Expansion
  The Empire State Transportation Alliance, a new, encompassing coalition of New York business, environmental, labor and civic organizations, called on Wednesday for an $18.2 bill...

• NY Times Backs Full Second Avenue Subway Line
  An editorial in the NY Times today states that the MTA should pursue funding for both the LIRR-Grand Central Link and a full-length Second Avenue Subway line, calling the projects a "do...

• Schumer, Moynihan Win D.C. Transit Fight
  Yesterday, Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama withdrew a budget measure that could have cost New York State up to $160 million in federal transit aid. Shelby's measure was approved by a Senate comm...

• Metro-North West Side Study Launched
  Metro-North Railroad has released a draft scoping document for a plan to bring some of its trains into Penn Station via the west side of Manhattan or, for the New Haven line, through Queens....

• NYC Gridlock: Less Parking = Less Traffic
  A recent Daily News expose' suggests a permanent means Mayor Giuliani could exercise to curb gridlock ? severely limit the availability of free parking permits for city workers...

• Still No Details on the New Jersey's $250M Transportation Ballot Question
  The history of voter disapproval of transportation bond issues does not seem to be worrying the Whitman Administration despite. So far, the State House and NJ DOT are still mum about the projects ...

• Tappan Zee Toll Study Nears Completion
  The NYS Thruway Authority recently completed its Congestion Relief Pricing Study for the Tappan Zee Bridge corridor. The final report has not yet been released to the public, but preliminary findi...

• Road-Ripping Mayor Will Visit Big Apple
  Milwaukee's Mayor, John Norquist, who succeeded this year in securing City Council approval and more than $20 million in federal money to tear down a 3/4 mile highway running through the city's cen...

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