• TSTC and Whitman Admin: Perfect Together - Campaign joins Truck Ban Court Case -
    Last week, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign won approval from a Federal district court in Trenton to intervene in a lawsuit brought against the Whitman administration by the American Trucking ...

  • Nassau Budget: Round 2 for Long Island Bus?
     Officials from Long Island Bus presented awards to state and county legislators who helped the agency through Nassau County's fiscal melt-down last year at a ceremony last Thursday. The event was tim...

  • Weinshall is New NYC Transport Chief
     According to the NY Post and Newsday, the New York City Department of Transportation will soon be headed by Iris Weinshall, presently first deputy commissioner of the city's Depar...

  • Longer LIE HOV Lane Not Carpool Magnet
     A year after the 8-mile extension of the Long Island Expressway (LIE) HOV lane in western Suffolk and Nassau County in 1998, the New York State Department of Transportation touted its largest annual i...

  • More Review for Bronx Waste Station
     A NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation administrative law judge ruled last week that the DEC should require American Marine Rail (AMR) to perform an environmental impact statement on it...

  • Washington Considers New TEA-21 "Environmental Streamlining" Rules - Coalition to Defend NEPA Back In Force -
     The second stage of one of the most widely watched environmental battles in the 1998 ISTEA reauthorization, the "streamlining" of the environmental review process for transportation p...

  • Study Reveals Bypass Will Worsen NJ Rt. 206 Bottleneck
    The Star-Ledger reported last week that Montgomery residents who live in a housing development adjacent to the route planned for the Route 206 Bypass are agitating to force the NJ Dept. of Tran...

  • Funding Still Pending for Lackawanna Cut-Off - Will FTA Support Sprawl Rail? -
    The Associated Press and the Jersey Journal reported last week that New Jersey and Pennsylvania are still unable to resolve how to divide funding and operating responsibility for the Lackawa...