• NY Transport Finance: Ask Again Later ?
     Reports from both the NY State Assembly and the NY State Senate estimate that New York will have about $1 billion more in revenue than Governor Pataki's 2000-2001 budget allows for. Legislative leade...

  • MTA Puts Foot in It (Again)
     No dot.com could have asked for better. A full month before an ad blitz was scheduled to hit the subways urging more and better transit service, Regional Plan Association (RPA) and the Straphangers C...

  • E-ZPass Catching on in Jersey
    A new count released by the Garden State Parkway this week shows over 50,000 E-ZPass accounts opened in NJ and 100,000 tags issued since the Parkway began rolling out the system in December. Th...

  • Monthly Pass, NJ Fare Card for New Light Rail
    In preparation for opening the first phase of the new Hudson-Bergen light rail system in mid-April, NJ Transit announced fares this week. Frequent trains will run on a 7.5 mile track between 2...

  • Need for TZ II Unclear, Elected Officials Mum
     At a forum hosted by Congressman Benjamin Gilman Monday evening in New City, NY State Thruway director John Platt again made the case for a new, bigger Tappan Zee Bridge, claiming that high costs requ...

  • Tough Topic: Long Island Transportation
     News 12, Long Island's all-news station, and Newsday co-produced an hour-long program last Thursday on Long Island's transportation future. The show brought critical issues and debates to the ...

  • Two Steps Forward on Route 120 Plan - Enviros Look for a Third -
    At a meeting last Tuesday, the NY State DOT released more details on its latest proposal for a controversial upgrade to Route 120 along the Kensico Reservoir.

    Under the ne...

  • Spotlight on Rte. 92's Unanswered Questions
     Although the NJ Turnpike Authority quickly consented to the Army Corps of Engineers' requirement of a full federal environmental impact statement for the proposed Route 92 expressway in February, it i...