Schumer Pushes Major Hike in Federal Transit Tax Benefit
NY Senator Charles Schumer is pushing for an increase in the amount of pre-tax income employees could set-aside for mass transit and van-pooling fares.
McGreevey
Links Highways, Sprawl
NJ gubernatorial candidate
Jim McGreevey has said he would order the DOT to keep new highways out
of State Plan designated environmentally sensitive areas.
NJDOT:
Above the Law?
The NJ DOT presented a record
$2.66 billion 2002 capital budget to the legislature that flies in the
face of legally mandated spending goals.
Beyond
Budget Cuts: Nassau Bus Advocates Demand More Service
Transit advocates handed
out leaflets at the Hempstead Transit Center urging riders to ask Nassau
County leaders for a small piece of the 2000 surplus to ease crowding.
Green
Backs Queens Boulevard Calming Plan
NYC Public Advocate Mark
Green proposed a list of six low-cost measures to increase pedestrian
safety along Queens Boulevard.
NYC
Traffic Calming: an Agenda for 2001
The Winter, 2001 Transportation
Alternatives magazine lists immediate steps to improve the NYC pedestrian
environment.
Midtown's
Pedestrian Gridlock
Pedestrian volumes in
Manhattan's
garment district are up 22% from four years ago and still growing.
Traffic
Calming Works
The Transportation Quarterly
reviews
data from studies of traffic calming projects, and concludes that traffic
calming measures generally acheive their goals.
Brooklyn
Traffic Calming Plan: Still Contested
Transportation Alternatives
reports that the implementation of Downtown Brooklyn pilot traffic calming
projects leave much to be desired.
Amtrak
Adding to Fast Fleet
Amtrak says it will add
two new high-speed trainsets to its Northeast Corridor Acela Express service
(bringing the total to three) on March 5.
New
York Readies Faster Trains
Governor Pataki announced
in February that tests of refurbished high-speed diesel locomotives for
the Empire State Corridor have been successful.
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