Issue 291 Table of Contents

October 23, 2000

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• Mets Line Beats Yankees' Lines, Say Straphangers

On the eve of a subway series, the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign called the #7 subway to Shea Stadium a "clear winner" over the two lines serving Yankee Stadium, the #4 and D lines.
 
• Nassau Democrats Propose Long Island Bus Cuts

The New York Times reported last Thursday that the latest Nassau County budget proposal by county legislature Democrats would cut county support for Long Island Bus by $4 million in the coming ...


• Port Plans Stuck on Trucks...

Last Monday, environmental organizations and port, municipal, state, and Federal agencies met to discuss the environmental impacts of future development of the Port of New York & New Jersey. ...


• ...But Progress at Rail-Float Meeting

The Port Authority convened freight carriers, transportation agencies, elected officials and public interest groups last Tuesday for a long-awaited "charrette" to discuss how best to invest ...


• NY Bond Act Scorecard

Organizations and newspapers continued to weigh in on both sides of NY's Transportation Bond Act last week:
 
• NJ Voters Face Transport Reform Measure - Ballot Question Could Reduce Traffic, Sprawl -

In the run-up to election day, supporters of New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund renewal bill are educating the public about the importance of Public Question #1, particularly targeting supp...


• Sheridan Expressway / Bronx River: Pataki Boosts Greenway, Ferrer Rejects Road

In September, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation obtained a waterfront property west of the Bronx River, between the Bruckner Expressway and Westchester Avenue, which it will integra...


• Symposium Spotlights Sheridan-to-Park Plan

Proposals to convert the Sheridan Expressway and Edgewater Road to river-front open space were centerpieces of an international brownfields conference sponsored by the Pratt Institute Center fo...


• NY State DOT Proceeds With Elevated Highway Plan

Also this week, the State DOT released its final "expanded project proposal" for the northern interchange between the Sheridan, the Cross Bronx Expressway and the Bronx River Parkway (the pr...


• Holt, Torricelli, Slater to Whitman: Strengthen NJ Truck Ban

Last Monday at a press conference in Flemington, New Jersey Democratic Congressman Rush Holt and Senator Robert Torricelli urged Governor Whitman to apply the terms of her 1999 ban on 102-inch trucks ...


• Millstone Bypass Environmental Assessment Found Wanting

For opponents of the Millstone Bypass, the fact that it is now called "Relocated County Route 571" in the environmental assessment released by the NJ Dept. of Transportation last week has no...


• Court Upholds AirTrain Funding

Last week, a federal court in Manhattan ruled in favor of the Port Authority and Federal Aviation Administration in a pair lawsuits challenging the funding for the Jamaica-JFK AirTrain project....
 
 

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