• NJ Legislature Supports Progressive TTF Bill
     The NJ Assembly Appropriations Committee amended, then released, the Transportation Trust Fund reauthorization bills and resolutions dedicating more existing sales and gas taxes for the TTF. Chair...

  • Pressure Rises in Albany for South Shore Buses
     A bill that would require the MTA to begin running at least four new express bus routes into Manhattan from Staten Island's South Shore neighborhoods by September 30th scored an important victory on J...

  • MTA Debt Bomb Still Ticking - Capital Needs Doc Shows $1.2 billion Gap -
    At a 2000-2019 MTA capital needs assessment hearing this week, advocacy groups raised red flags about the agency's short and long-term financial health as well as the meager funding for NYCTransit pro...

  • TZ II Rail Scrutinized At Citizen Forum
     At a forum held in Nyack this week, Rockland and Westchester County residents and elected officials again expressed doubt that a proposal by the Governor's I-287 Task Force for commuter rail across a ...

  • Solving Co-Op City Traffic Woes: Highway Expansion or Transport Alternatives in the Bronx?
     Originally planned solely around the automobile, Co-Op City is a community now strangled by congestion. Traveling by car, the 27,000 residents of the high-rise complex must use one of two local stree...

  • Clearing the Air
     As summer 2000 proceeds, sunlight will continue to react with car and truck emissions to create unsafe levels of smog around the country. A national report by the Clean Air Network released last week...

  • Cyclists Bus It With New NJTransit Program

    Two-cycle bike racks are now in place on all NJ Transit urban and suburban transit buses in southern New Jersey. The 262 buses involved re...