• No Parity in NY Senate Hway Bond - Silver's 2nd Ave. Line in the Sand-

    In the midst of the on-going debate in Albany over transit and highway capital programs, the NY Senate and Assembly majorities announced and then passed 2000-2001 state bu...

  • Knife Held over NY Gas Tax
     This week the NY State Assembly and Senate passed versions of their 2000-2001 budget containing respective provisions to suspend or to eliminate the 4% state sales tax on gasoline. The Assembly...

  • NYC Projects Last in Line
     An analysis of the MTA's proposed 2000-2004 capital program by the Regional Plan Association shows that spending for suburban projects is concentrated in the earlier years of the plan, while city t...

  • CDOT's I-95 Congestion Reduction Bust
     In July 1997, with strong backing from the business and environmental community, Governor Rowland signed into law an ambitious bill that pressed for a solution to the growing traffic grid-lock ...

  • Subway Ads Uncensored
     Today the MTA notified the U.S. District Court and Straphanger's Campaign and RPA officials that it would end its objections to one of two ads urging investment in NYC transit. Scheduled to run...

  • NYC Buses: Poor Progress By Any Measure
     This week the Straphanger's Campaign released Standing Still, its third annual report on the state of MTA bus service. The report reviews a range of performance measures collected by the agency...

  • NJ Transit Tests Bus Fleet Bike Racks
     Last Friday, a Delaware Valley bicycling advocate sighted a NJ Transit metrobus fitted with a front-mounted bicycle rack on NJ Route 70 between Philadelphia and Marlton. Currently, riders across the s...

  • More Stuff, More Trucks
     The Port of New York and New Jersey shipped a record amount of cargo last year. The number of containers handled at the port increased 7.9% to 2 million and the amount of general cargo increased 7.3% ...

  • MTA's T-Z Rail: a pie-in-the-sky?
     This week, Governor Pataki treated the prospect of a new bridge as a political hot potato conceived of by an unrelated entity when he responded to an "Ask the Governor" WCBS radio query by saying, "In...