/20000529/mtr27101.htm NY State Says Staten Island Bus-way Likely May 29, 2000 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... 271
/20000529/mtr27102.htm NJ Trust Fund Hearing: Tuesday, May 30 May 29, 2000 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... 271
/20000529/mtr27103.htm NYC Wraps Up Big Rail Freight Study May 29, 2000 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 &... 271
/20000529/mtr27104.htm East-of-Hudson Rail Freight - One Step Forward, One Step Back? - May 29, 2000 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... 271
/20000529/mtr27105.htm Tappan Zee II on the Front Burner May 29, 2000 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... 271
/20000529/mtr27106.htm Big, Unanswered Questions About the I-287 Task Force's Tappan Zee II Plan May 29, 2000 When will a decision be made about the value pricing toll program the Task Force has recommended for the Tappan Zee Bridge, and will that be a public process? Will the agencies seek to educate... 271
/20000529/mtr27107.htm NYC Transit Scuttles S.I.-NJ Bus Talks -'We don't do inter-state service' - May 29, 2000 NYC Transit officials abruptly withdrew from a high level meeting of regional transportation agencies earlier this month on Staten Island-NJ bus service over the Bayonne Bridge, the S.I. Adv... 271
/20000529/mtr27108.htm Cops Caught Out on NYC Cycling Deaths May 29, 2000 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 ... 271
/20000529/mtr27109.htm NYC Council Calls on Traffic Safety Experts May 29, 2000 Police malfeasance came under fire at a Monday City Council hearing on the rise in cyclist and pedestrian deaths last year. Pedestrian and cycling advocates noted that Mayor Giuliani's much-bal... 271