At a hearing Wednesday, NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver and other Assembly members grilled MTA Chair E. Virgil Conway over
the MTA’s capital program proposal. The Assembly pa...
Responding to press questions Wednesday about Conway’s
statement on a transit fare hike, Mayor Giuliani likened transit fare increases
to rainstorms and changing seasons — "the realit...
While Assembly Speaker Silver’s position favoring Second Avenue construction
the length of Manhattan has become well-known, and Assembly Democrats have
a general distaste for heavy fa...
By a nearly 2-1 margin, New Jersey voters approved a $500 million transportation
bond referendum on Tuesday. Half the proceeds will be directed to fix aging
county and municipal bridg...
Defying the odds, ConnDOT today submitted a revamped application to
the Army Corps of Engineers for a permit to build an expressway east of
Hartford to replace the two-lane Route 6. U...
This week, Governor Whitman and NJDOT announced $1.25m in awards under
the state’s "Local Aid to Centers" program. Nine municipalities received
awards, mainly for streetscape and city...
Writing in the New Haven Register this week, Connecticut Fund
for the Environment’s Curt Johnson says ConnDOT efforts to add transit
elements to its massive plan to widen I-95 ...
As New York City garbage trucks prepared to roll into Newark and Elizabeth
(see last week’s MTR), Union County officials filed suit in New
Jersey Superior Court last Friday. Th...
A memo obtained by the Star-Ledger last week says
the Port Authority is taking steps to replace the PATH "Quickcard" fare
card with a more up-to-date electronic fare collection...
John Norquist, Mayor of Milwaukee, provided a refreshing
vision for cities in the next century in a speech at Cooper Union last
night. Adamant in his objection to urban highways, he p...
Last week, Senator Frank Lautenberg introduced a new "High Speed Rail
and Investment Act." It would authorize Amtrak to sell $10 billion in rail
bonds over the next ten years to build high speed rail ...
