• New Jersey Inaugurates Major Addition to Region's Rail Transit System
     Elected officials from across northern New Jersey celebrated the opening of a major addition to NJ's - and the metropolitan region's - rail transit system in the pouring rain last Saturday. The first...

  • 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-...

  • NYC Express Bus Ridership Booms - Groups Renew Call for I-278 Busway -
     According to recently released NYC Transit statistics, express bus ridership in NYC is up over 60% in two years. From January, 1998 to January 2000, fare incentives and larger buses have caused avera...

  • 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.

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