• ConnDOT Defends I-95 Widening Plan
     In a November letter, ConnDOT replied to concerns raised by three environmental and transportation groups regarding the environmental and safety impacts of the state's proposal to open the I-95 should...

  • SIE Bus Lane Stub To Open Today
     Today, the New York Department of Transportation inaugurates a one-mile bus-only lane on the Staten Island Expressway. However, city bus riders are unlikely to see a much speedier commute because acro...

  • MTA Fares Stay Stable, But Funding Shaky
     At a MTA Transit Committee meeting last week, transit officials confirmed earlier indications that New York City bus and subway riders and rail commuters would see no fare increase in 2001 (MTR...

  • In Pinelands and Highlands, NJ Preserves Threatened by Hway Expansion
    In the New Jersey Highlands, the NJ Department of Transportation is in the final stages of both a Community Assessment and a Congestion Management Study for the twenty-mile Route 15 corridor between D...

  • NY/NJ Ports Look to Euro Intermodal Leader
     The Port of Rotterdam will advise the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey in the creation of an extensive inland distribution network, the bi-state agency announced late last month. The netwo...

  • Around Connecticut: Bad Advice on Transportation
    ">- Agency Thinks Sprawl Might Ease Congestion -

    At a conference in Cromwell last Tuesday, Connecticut...

  • NJ Assembly Leader Presses for Regional Transit Card
    New Jersey Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman Alex DeCroce (R-Morris) introduced a resolution last week that calls on transit agencies operating in the Garden State to work quickly to imple...

  • Co-Op City Plan Stripped of Transit
     At the first public meeting for the New York State Department of Transportation study of Co-op City transportation problems last week, agency representatives presented solutions focussed primarily on ...

  • Study: Highway Heavy Public Investment Drives Up Personal Spending
     Families pay thousands more per year on transportation in spread-out, centerless metropolitan areas with few choices for getting around, reports a recently released study by the Surface Transportation...