NYS Leaders Break Bond Silence, But Voters Still Kept in the Dark Last Monday, Governor Pataki, State Senate Majority Leader Bruno and Assembly Speaker Silver announced their joint agreement regarding a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for projects that will be fun...
Broad Coalition Rallies Around LI Bus At a press conference in front of the Nassau Legislative Building in Mineola last Thursday, civic, labor and environmental groups called on county legislators to keep cuts to Long Island Bus fundin...
LA's Lesson for Nassau The ongoing strike by Los Angeles transit workers provides a real-life example for Nassau County political leaders of what happens to traffic levels when transit disappears. Like Nassau on a larger s...
NJ Politics More Anti-Sprawl than Ever Thirty New Jersey environmental groups and 74 of the state's 120 state legislators have called on Governor Whitman to tighten enforcement and expand the scope of her proposed new sewer regulations The...
Connecticut Summit Draws Fire The vice-chairman of the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council, James Cameron told council members and visitors at a meeting earlier this month that the transportation summit scheduled for September 28th ...
Groups Ask New NYC DOT Head Weinshall to Improve Truck Routes Now This week, civic, environmental, and transportation organizations from around the city called on the new New York City DOT Commissioner, Iris Weinshall, to take immediate action to reform the city's t...
Ped Take-Over Set for Times Square After 3 1/2 years of planning and numerous public meetings, the Department of City Planning's innovative Times Square Pedestrian Improvement Plan is soon to be built. According to the NY Post,...
Greenways Grow Along the Hudson Earlier this month twelve New Jersey mayors, Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski, and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Shinn announced their commitment to completing t...
TA Ride Showcases Borough Greenways Participants in Transportation Alternatives' NYC Century bike tour of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx on Sept. 10th experienced new improvements to NYC's emerging greenway network. Impro...
Philly Hosts Largest Bike/Ped Conference Bicycle and pedestrian planners and advocates convened Sept. 5-8 in Philadelphia for the biennial Pro-Bike/Pro-Walk conference. With 500+ in attendance, it was the largest yet of the conference serie...
