Local Leaders Mobilize vs. Rush for TZ II
In a letter published in Thursday's NY Times, Greenburgh Town Supervisor and candidate for Congress Paul Feiner urged that all cheaper, short-term alternatives to reduce traffic on the Tappan-Z...

Linking Transport, Land Use in Hudson Valley
The first of three public workshops held as part of the Route 303 Sustainable Development Study will take place on Saturday, May 6th in Sparkill, New York (see calendar). A joint project by the Town ...

Reform NJ's Transportation Trust Fund
At the New Jersey state-wide "Trans-Action" conference this week in Atlantic City, the buzz was about pending renewal of NJ's Transportation Trust Fund. The Trust Fund must have new ...

Skelos: MTA Should Adopt LI Bus Financing
NY State Senator Dean Skelos, who represents part of Nassau County and is the State Senate's point person on transit issues, announced Thursday he believes the Metropolitan Transportation Authority sh...

L.I. Civic: Traffic Calming, not Road Widening
In March testimony responding to Suffolk County's plan to widen County Route 16 (Portion Rd.) in Brookhaven, Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organization (ABCO) president Connie Kepert said expanding the ...

Public Transit Ridership Up Nation-wide
According to figures released by the American Public Transportation Association last week, over 9 billion trips were taken last year in the U.S. on public transportation, representing the highest n...

NYS DOT Dangles Sheridan Removal Study
At a Bronx community meeting Monday, the NYS Dept. of Transportation gave groups a taste of the agency's conclusions of regarding the likely traffic impacts of turning the Sheridan Expressway into par...

Picture of an Eco-Port
Port advocates discussed visions for "green port" development at a recent meeting of a government/public working group on harbor dredging, which has become increasingly interested in transpo...

Transit-Chek Gets Federal Mandate
In commemoration of Earth Day, President Clinton issued an executive order last week requiring all federal agencies in the Washington, DC area to begin providing tax benefits to mass transit...

Correction: Hudson-Bergen Rail Funding
Last week's MTR mistakenly reported that funding is still needed to extend the Hudson Bergen Light Rail line to Hoboken Terminal. In fact, the segment from Exchange Place to Hoboken Te...