NJ Transit, PATH Rule Out 2000 Fare Hikes NJ Transit director Jeffrey Warsh told reporters last week that NJT fares would remain stable through fiscal 2001, which begins in July. He said a measure of internal reorganization wou...
NJ Road Pricing Plan Sails Through Hearings At hearings in southern, central, and northern New Jersey this week, motorists and interest group representatives supported the NJ Turnpike's proposal to raise tolls. Almost no one objected to...
City Raps Unpopular Kensico Expressway New York City officials criticized the NY State DOT plan to widen Route 120 along the Kensico Reservoir yesterday, charging the project will increase polluted run-off into the body, which is th...
Corps Redraws Route 92 Wetlands Map Representatives from South Brunswick and Montgomery Townships, the Sierra Club, and Taxpayers' Taskforce spoke out this week against the proposed construction of Route 92 across southern Middlesex Cou...
Port Authority Staff Still Stumping for Second Goethals Bridge The Port Authority recently renewed its lobbying among Staten Island elected leaders for a second Goethals bridge - a project which the public and elected leaders from both sides of the Kill have vehe...
Transit Tossed onto Nassau's Fiscal Fire Long Island Bus President Neil Yellin told Newsday this week that the agency might have to cut bus services in Nassau County by up to 35% to cope with severe operating budget cuts...
Impact of Turnpike Truck Discount Still Hazy More trucks are driving the NJ Turnpike since the Turnpike Authority began an off-peak toll discount program sixteen months ago. Since August 1998, the Authority has offered up to a 15% reducti...
Activists Stick it to Stinking Tour Buses City residents and environmental justice advocates joined forces last weekend to protest NY Apple Tours' continuing defiance of the Federal Clean Air Act. The company's open-top, double-decker buses e...
Correction: Last week, we stated that diesel emissions from buses create 50% of all particulate pollution in New York City. The correct figure is that emissions from all diesel sources...
