• Transit Plan in Silver's Court

    - MTA unveils, approves $17.5B plan in same day -

    Following the MTA Board's vote to approve its hot-off-the-presses 5-year capital program proposal on Wednesday, debate over...

  • Papers Shun Highway Expansion

    Editorials this week in the Staten Island Advance and the Hudson Valley Journal News argued that adding lanes in congested highway corridors would likely increase the scale of grid...

  • Rail Freight: Tunnel at the End of the Study?

    The NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) appears likely to finish its major investment study of cross-harbor rail freight improvement options in Spring, 2000. Thereafter, work could begin on...

  • Governor Pataki Signs Slow Speed Legislation

    On Wednesday, New York Governor Pataki signed legislation permitting New York City to set local speed limits as low as 15 miles per hour in conjunction with installation of traffic calming s...

  • Groups Rebuff Bronx Elevated Road Plan

    This week, the New York State Department of Transportation held its second hearing on a project to connect the Bronx River Parkway to the Sheridan Expressway via a new elevated highway ramp....

  • Rockland Seeks Priority for West Shore Rail

    The NY Metropolitan Transportation Council meeting last week featured an unusual event - action whose outcome was not pre-determined. Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef offered an amendm...