/20000421/mtr26601.htm New Jersey Inaugurates Major Addition to Region's Rail Transit System April 21, 2000 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... 266
/20000421/mtr26602.htm NJ's Trust Fund: A Chance to Fast Track Transit Projects April 21, 2000 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... 266
/20000421/mtr26603.htm Slow-Cook Recipe for Light Rail April 21, 2000 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 ... 266
/20000421/mtr26604.htm Hudson-Bergen Light Rail: The Facts April 21, 2000 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.... 266
/20000421/mtr26605.htm Staten Island and the New Light Rail April 21, 2000 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 ... 266
/20000421/mtr26606.htm MTA OKs Big Debt Plan April 21, 2000 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 ... 266
/20000421/mtr26607.htm Tappan Zee II Recommendation is Official April 21, 2000 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... 266
/20000421/mtr26608.htm L.I. Town Promotes Innovative Parking Strategy April 21, 2000 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-... 266
/20000421/mtr26609.htm NYC Express Bus Ridership Booms - Groups Renew Call for I-278 Busway - April 21, 2000 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... 266
/20000421/mtr26610.htm LI Bus: Shell Game Outed April 21, 2000 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. ... 266