Rowland: Green Light for CT Strategy Board In a presentation to the Connecticut Legislature last Wednesday, Governor John Rowland proposed that funds be set aside in the biennial budget to finance the short-term recommendations of the Transpor...
Fossella Questions MTA on Bayonne Buses The Staten Island Advance recently reported that Representative Vito Fossella has launched another salvo against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority regarding its refusal to consider prov...
DiFrancesco, NJ Legislature Move to Cement Rt. 29 Truck Ban Acting New Jersey Governor Donald DiFrancesco directed the NJ Department of Transportation last Thursday to extend former Governor Whitman's November emergency order banning heavy trucks from Route 29...
NJ Senate Weighs E-Z Discount for Parkway The New Jersey Senate Transportation Committee unanimously approved a resolution (SR47) last Thursday that urges the New Jersey Highway Authority to offer toll discounts to drivers using E-ZPass on th...
Will Discounts Chart a New PATH? When the toll and fare increases approved by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey last month go into effect, PATH riders will have a financial incentive to purchase tickets in bulk. For the...
NYC: Subway Studies Pile Up In recent weeks, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced it will begin two environmental impact studies for subway system expansions - one for the section of the 2nd Avenue ...
Straphanger's Campaign: Subways Cleaner The number of clean subway cars increased in the last year, according to the fourth annual "subway shmutz" survey by the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign. Campaign surveyors rated 47% of subway cars as "c...
Amtrak, Supporters Press For Capital Funds The High Speed Rail Investment Act championed by former New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg was resurrected and resubmitted last week by Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and fifty co-sponsors including t...
