New Jersey is entering the home stretch regarding its need to reauthorize
the state Transportation Trust Fund. The deadline for action to
breathe new revenue into the state fund for tran...
All of the "alternative" scenarios under consideration by NYSDOT's
Long
Island Transportation Plan 2000 study involve significant highway expansion
projects. "Mass transit" options involve "HOV..
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As it prepares to pass the April 1 state budget deadline, Albany continues
to grapple with long-term transportation funding issues. Governor Pataki's
opening bid for new 5-year MTA and NY State DOT pr..
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The Port Authority launched another salvo this week in its effort to
persuade Staten Island and Union County to accept a Goethals Bridge
"twin" along I-278. The Port Authority argued in a Tuesd...
NYC DOT Commissioner Wilbur Chapman stated that the city's study of
truck routes (officially called the Freight Vehicles Operations Needs Assessment
and Design Program) was dead in its original form. ..
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On Tuesday, CT Governor John Rowland urged the state legislature to
enact a 7-cent/gallon tax cut by April 1. Connecticut has been hacking
at its gas tax for several years - it is becoming an a...
State and County officials from Nassau County took constructive steps
this week to head off radical reductions in Long Island Bus service.
But Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta continues t...
Last week, we followed a 3/23 Staten Island Advance story in
reporting that a federal requirement for one-way Verrazano Bridge tolls
would lapse in 2001. However, the sec...
