PA Considers Toll Increase, Goethals Twin The Star-Ledger reported last weekend that draft Port Authority documents it had obtained called for fare and toll increases by 2003. The hikes would support a multi-year capital program of...
One Click to a Better Commute Last week, NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign launched a new web site that will help NYC transit commuters save money and time. Visitors to www.straphangers.org can use an interactive subway map to...
High Praise for Variable Tolls At EZ Party Though newspapers missed the story at the official celebration of the arrival of E-ZPass in New Jersey last Tuesday, chief executives from both the NJ Turnpike Authority and the Port Authority of NY/N...
Turnpike Pricing Program is World's Largest A preliminary comparison of available information by Campaign staff has found that not only is the New Jersey Turnpike's new time-sensitive toll structure the largest experiment in "value pricing...
CT Summit Follow-Up off on Wrong Foot Working groups convened as part of September's Connecticut Transportation Summit recommended far-reaching transportation policy changes. However, a fast-track I-95 widening proposal made last week by...
Traffic Same with or Without Sheridan At the request of elected officials and community groups, the NYS DOT undertook a study of the traffic impacts of removing the Sheridan Expressway (MTR #237). On the first page o...
Nassau Pro-Transit Coalition Mobilizes Again Over twenty pro-transit, civic and environmental organizations, plus the Village of Hempstead and City of Glen Cove sent a joint letter last week urging Nassau County legislative leaders Judith Jacobs...
More Villages Question Rte 347 Widening Last week, governing officials of the Village of the Branch and the Village of Port Jefferson in central Suffolk County agreed to endorse the "5-Point Plan for a Better Route 347 Project," a...
Looking to London: New Mayor Pushes Congestion Pricing Independent candidate Ken Livingstone rode to a definitive majority victory in London's first ever mayoral elections last May, in part due to a promise to begin charging fees to vehicles entering c...
