NJ Lawmakers Finish Work on Transportation Trust Fund Bill
Backing for Gowanus Tunnel Stronger Than Ever
NYC City Council Members from Brooklyn convened a news conference Tuesday to announce $75,000 in funding for the Regional Plan Association to continue studying the possibilities of burying the Gowanus...
South Bronx: Trains Start Stopping On July 9, Metro-North schedule changes, announced in May (MTR #270) went into effect. For the South Bronx' Melrose and East Tremont stations, this meant doubling weekday service and the first weekend...
Newark Airport: Back to Buses The severe problems experienced by the Newark Airport monorail (design flaws have forced it partially out of service now, and it will be closed entirely for repairs from Labor Day until the end of the...
Garden State Parkway Confirms E-ZPass Non-stop Toll Potential NJ highway officials have finished the report that legislators asked them to undertake last year on the potential for installing high-speed toll collection technology along the Garden State Par...
As NJ Toughens Stance, Truckers' Lawsuit Heads for Showdown Earlier this year, the American Trucking Association filed a challenge in federal court to the truck route plans NJ Dept. of Transportation adopted in 1999, first on an emergency basis in July, then f...
U.S. Senate Rejects Election Season Gas Tax Suspension Senators Moynihan and Lautenberg spoke up on the Senate floor during yesterday's Senate consideration of an amendment to suspend the federal gas tax until after the November elections. Lautenberg art...
Tappan Zee Transit Undergoes Adjustment Rockland County and NY State DOT officials are revamping the schedules and routes of Tappan Zee Express bus routes, according to the Journal-News. All buses except a route directly serv...
Goethals Twin May Still Haunt Planning Docs Responding to an item in MTR #276, NYMTC has informed us that the Goethals Bridge twin project has never been factored into its clean air/transportation "conformity" analysis, and so ...