1999 budget numbers for NYC Transit as of November were released at
an MTA board committee meeting this week. At first glance, the transit
agency looked to be $300.8 million ov...
This week, Long Island Bus executives submitted a plan to the MTA for
sweeping service reductions caused by withdrawal of $7 million by Nassau
County Executive Thomas Gulotta. Repo...
At a NJ Alliance for Action forum on the Transportation Trust Fund
today, New Jersey Transportation Commissioner James Weinstein sidestepped
the issue of new taxes or other revenue...
The buzz in Rockland County over the proposal by the I-287 Task Force
to build a replacement bridge for the Tappan Zee continued without
let-up this week. Local elected offi...
In comments cited in the Rockland-Westchester Journal-News this
week, the chair of the I-287 Task Force (and MTA chair), E. Virgil Conway
said that restoration of passenger s...
Transportation reform advocates and environmentalists received a boost
last week when NYC elected officials unanimously denounced the NY State
DOT's proposal to widen Routes 120...
A $500 million transportation bond act passed by New Jersey voters
in November is now being divvied up by legislators for spending. The spending
plan reflected in the implementing ...
Governor Pataki today announced the formation of a cabinet-level "Quality
Communities" task force, to be headed by Lieutenant Governor Mary O. Donohue,
to suggest changes...
In the January edition of its Car & Travel magazine, the
NY Motorist Association brags about its successful campaign to prevent
New York City from installing more red-li...
In a series of letters sent last month, mayors and administrators of
several New Jersey towns warned the US Army Corps of Engineers that the
regional impacts of Route 92 deserve fu...
Governor Whitman signed a bill into law on January 13th that finally
sticks thru-traveling trucks using state, county, and local roads with
real penalties....
Results from NYC Public Advocate Mark Green's survey of NYC subway
and bus riders are in, showing strong support for a full-length Second
Avenue subway. The poll asked 246 randoml...
