Governor Pataki, Lawmakers, MTA Forge New Clean Bus Plan - Big Win for NRDC -
Signaling a truce on the issue of diesel bus purchases in the new MTA 5-year capital program, Governor Pataki announced Wednesday the MTA would step up its purchase of cleaner buses and accelerate con...

Green Groups Reserved on NY Bond Act - Want to See Highway Project List -
Last week, nine state-wide and regional environmental organizations wrote to Governor Pataki, NY Assembly Speaker Silver and State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, stating that they would not s...

Likely MTA Finance Plan Promises Tough Times for Transit
This week's MTA clean bus deal notwithstanding (see story at left), Albany leaders continue to work on details of the 5-year transit and highway capital programs, which they say will provide $17.1 bil...

Clean Buses: NJ Transit Blows Smoke
At a meeting of the Assembly budget committee last week, NJ Transit director Jeff Warsh was grilled on his agency's recent decision to purchase 1,400 new diesel buses. His response, that compre...

SI Access to New Hudson-Bergen Rail Line ?
An MTA spokesperson told the S.I. Advance this week that the agency is considering new bus service across the Bayonne Bridge to connect to NJ Transit's new Hudson-Bergen light rail li...

Gulotta's Shell Game
NY State Senator Dean Skelos and State Assembly Member Thomas DiNapoli announced Wednesday that they had secured $8 million in state budget negotiations to prevent Long Island Bus service cuts....

Freight Trains in Backyard - Do NJ citizens, officials prefer trucks ? - 
Middlesex County citizens and officials are up in arms over a proposal by Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) to ship NYC trash south or west on freight trains. The issue highlights tensions that need to...