• Rowland Wants Transit Tax Benefits for State Workers
    Connecticut Governor John Rowland told the Stamford Chamber of Commerce in early October he plans to offer the "Deduct-A-Ride" (CT's term for a program know in NY as "TransitChek")...

  • Enviros Question Fast-Track I-95 Widening
     The Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Environmental Defense and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign have written to CT Transportation Commissioner James Sullivan, asking about his agency's inten...

  • EPA: Thumbs Down on Meadowlands Mall
     Last Wednesday, the US EPA sent a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers indicating that it would veto any wetlands filling permits granted to the Mills Corps. for at least three of five proposals to c...

  • Critical Mass Seems to Elude New York's Transportation Bond Act
    Last week, NY State's transportation bond act continued its lurch toward November, attracting a variety of positions from top New York City officials. The reactions ...

  • Bergen Debates Cross-County Rail
     Last month, a large group of Passaic and Bergen County local, county, and state officials toured the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line with local press to promote a future light rail project that would co...

  • Suffolk Candidates Battle: Who Opposes Widening NY 347 More?
    Newsday reported last Tuesday that NY State DOT plans to widen Route 347 in Smithtown and Brookhaven have entered into the NY State Assembly race between incumbent Steven Englebright and ch...

  • PA Proceeds With Northeast Freight Plan
     Port Authority officials say they have finished their feasibility study for a system of inland distribution centers for the Port of NY/NJ. The idea is to move big numbers of containers from th...

  • Attention Deficit: NY's Suburban Transit
     Unless Nassau County legislators are able to nip in the bud County Executive Thomas Gulotta's proposal to end county support for Long Island Bus by 2002, the move could raise some thorny...

  • Should Traffic Engineers Design Communities ?
    In September, the New York City DOT declared its rush-hour parking ban along Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island a success and began to discuss other Staten Island streets that may meet wit...

  • Ferry Fruition
     Metro-North Railroad says the new Haverstraw-Ossining commuter ferry     ¾ about a month old ¾ i...

  • Looking To London: Truck Ban in Transition
    In addition to roadway pricing, the question of how to strengthen and improve the fifteen year-old night-time and weekend ban of large trucks from Greater London area roads was a central issue ...

  • Kiley for London
     Robert Kiley, president of the New York Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, NYC's leading business association, and former chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been named chief exec...