NJ's Trust Fund: A Chance to Fast Track Transit Projects New Jersey could accommodate demands for speeding up the next phases of the Hudson-Bergen rail system, and for projects like light rail in Newark and Union County and restoration of commuter ra...
Slow-Cook Recipe for Light Rail 1) Money, lots of it (some private) and a bi-partisan team to bring it home. Former Representative Bob Roe was oft-mentioned as the father of ISTEA who performed on this count, along with ...
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail: The Facts Trains leave 34th St. in Bayonne for Exchange Place in Jersey City on a 23 minute trip every fifteen minutes. A branch line runs from West Side Avenue, joining the Bayonne line at Liberty State Park....
Staten Island and the New Light Rail For Staten Islanders who took the Hudson-Bergen light rail to work, the cost was more than $1.50. A round-trip drive to Hudson County included a $4 Bayonne Bridge toll, plus several bucks for parking ...
MTA OKs Big Debt Plan A special Metropolitan Transportation Authority board meeting convened on Wednesday approved a new version of the MTA's 2000-2004 capital program proposal. The revised plan will go next to the state ...
Tappan Zee II Recommendation is Official Governor Pataki's I-287 Task Force issued its final report this week. The findings were not a big surprise, since their outlines had been made known in January (MTR #252). The I-287 Task Force...
L.I. Town Promotes Innovative Parking Strategy Legislation was approved by the Town of North Hempstead board this week requiring that companies seeking to expand parking facilities first investigate parking "cash-out," or cash-in-...
LI Bus: Shell Game Outed Despite some confused reporting, opinion leaders in Nassau County have caught onto the Long Island Bus budget shenanigans pulled last week by County Executive Thomas Gulotta.
