• 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...