North Jersey Projects Back on Track? After unanimously voting down NJ Transit's 2001 capital programs list two weeks ago, NJTPA accepted a new project plan from the agency last Monday that now includes $10 million per year towards new ra...
Nassau Legislature Hears Outcry Over Long Island Bus Cuts At Monday's Nassau County Legislature session, the public speaking period was dominated by citizens opposed to severe pending cuts in Long Island Bus service. Speakers spotlighted issues of el...
Brookhaven Road Projects, Secret Data Rapped The Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organization and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign have called on Brookhaven-area state legislators to help unearth NY State DOT modeling data for a network of plan...
Mark Green Speaks NYC Public Advocate and likely candidate for mayor Mark Green addressed a meeting of the Council on Transportation Tuesday morning. Green displayed a wide-ranging interest and versatility regarding t...
Senate Hopefuls to Debate at NJ Transport Confab Newly added to the already-extensive proceedings at the April 25-27 TransAction Conference in Atlantic City is a debate between all of the Democratic and Republican candidates for New Jersey's open U....
Route 92 Looms Over Middlesex Farmland The Middlesex County Agricultural Development Board is currently reviewing a farmer's petition to set aside 120 acres as permanent open space. The land now stands in the path of the NJ Turnpike's ...
CT Mall Plan Still Begs Traffic Questions Last week, two Connecticut environmental and transportation advocacy groups again voiced their frustration with a state analysis of the traffic impacts of building the Long Wharf Galleria, a 1.2 milli...
NYC Council: Hard Look at Long Buses This week East-side NYC Councilmembers Gifford Miller and Eva Moskowitz called for a Council hearing on the MTA's introduction of articulated buses to Manhattan routes 79 and 86. The 60 foot long bus...
The Million-Excuse March Documents describing a variety of "bus rapid transit" projects sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration (see article below) indicate that transit officials in Boston and Cleveland ...
Cities, Suburbs Test New Transit Solutions Projects demonstrating different aspects of "bus rapid transit" systems are underway around the country, with sponsorship from the Federal Transit Administration and local transit agencies. ...
Bus Info System: Thing of the Present The Port Authority has successfully installed global positioning system technology to track its JFK Airport circulator buses, according to the Daily News. The system gives drivers and dispatch...
