NY State Says Staten Island Bus-way Likely Last week, in articles in the NY Times and the Staten Island Advance, NY State DOT officials said for the first time that the agency's long-range study for the Staten Island Ex...
NJ Trust Fund Hearing: Tuesday, May 30 The NJ Senate Transportation Committee will hold a public hearing Tuesday, May 30th on the provision of the Transportation Trust Fund renewal bill (S16) that would dedicate a further portion of pet...
NYC Wraps Up Big Rail Freight Study The NYC Economic Development Corporation has finished its "Cross-Harbor Rail Freight Major Investment Study." The analysis, roughly five years in the making, including earlier work on the &...
East-of-Hudson Rail Freight - One Step Forward, One Step Back? - In December, we reported that one of the constraints to bringing freight rail down the east side of the Hudson, south of Poughkeepsie, was low bridge clearance (MTR #248). Since then, Metro-No...
Tappan Zee II on the Front Burner Rockland and Westchester County legislators met jointly on May 18 to discuss the Tappan Zee II bridge and commuter rail plan recommended by Governor Pataki's I-287 Task Force. Legislators from bot...
Cops Caught Out on NYC Cycling Deaths Confirming widespread suspicion, city officials last week admitted that the NYPD had done no analysis of culpability in fatal bike-auto crashes, effectively disowning January police statements ...
NYC Council Calls on Traffic Safety Experts Police malfeasance came under fire at a Monday City Council hearing on the rise in cyclist and pedestrian deaths last year. Pedestrian and cycling advocatesnoted that Mayor Giuliani's much-bal...
