• Further Study Ruled for NJ's Route 92
     On Monday, January 7th the Army Corps of Engineers announced the NJ Turnpike Authority must submit its Route 92 project to a full environmental impact study before it can have the we...

  • Highway Lobby's Albany Offensive - Aim for the Moon: Want Road Spending Doubled -
     At a joint Assembly/Senate hearing on the transportation elements of Governor Pataki's executive budget Tuesday, highway construction industry representatives attacked the Governor's proposed $...

  • A New Picture of West Brooklyn
     The Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp. is sponsoring a design competition for ideas about how to use land and streetscape that would be freed if Brooklyn's Gowanus Expressway is sunk into...

  • Citizens, Smart Growth = Ped-Friendly Street
     A weekend-long charrette convened by Vision Huntington and Sustainable Long Island, with the help of Florida consultant Walkable Communities, developed an extended planning outline for rebuilding H...

  • Pressure Mounts on MTA Bus Plan
     At Tuesday's Legislative hearing on Governor Pataki's executive budget, clean fuel bus strategies and the Second Avenue subway controversy dominated testimony and discussion of mass transit issues. <...

  • Nassau Fiddles With Bus System on Brink
     The MTA and Long Island Bus have scheduled a public hearing for March 28 at the Nassau County Medical Center on the plan to slash bus service. The cuts are in response to Nassau County's remova...

  • Business Backs S.I. Bus-way
     The Staten Island Chamber of Commerce voted this week to support installing a guided busway on the Staten Island Expressway. The Chamber's president and CEO told the Staten Island Advance that...

  • City Truck Route Revision Still Stalled
     The NYC DOT plan to review and revise the city's truck routes in order to "increase operator efficiency" has hit a new roadblock. Hopefully, it will force the agency to rethink the limite...

  • New Scheme for One-Seat JFK Ride ?
     On January 31rst, New York State's economic development agency announced it would seek to facilitate a "public-private partnership" to pursue New York City's long-held ambition to develop a ...