Groups Sue New Jersey to Enforce Transportation Law
Five organizations filed a complaint regarding the Department of Transportation's refusal to comply with the 2000 Transportation Trust Fund Reauthorization Act.
NJ’s
Stealth Bridge Bond Awaits Hearing
To little notice, the Assembly
Transportation Committee approved the Local Bridge Bond Act of 2001 that
would allow $250 million in bonding to DOT on May 21st.
Fewer
Station Workers = More Subway Crime
Neighborhood advocates,
labor leaders protest MTA bid to save money through reducing number of
part-time toll clerks on pay roll.
Albany
Freeze: Transpo Tax Measures on Ice
Both the drive by the State
Senate to rescind the state sales tax on gasoline and tax easements
on freight railroads are held up by budget impasse.
Another
Toll Holiday Bid, Careful Language from DiFrancesco
Acting NJ Governor Donald
DiFrancesco issued an executive order directing NJ DOT to prepare a plan
for removal of the "barrier toll plazas" on the Garden State Parkway.
Dutchess
Guide a Must-Read for Region
The Dutchess County planning
department has produced an extremely attractive, very user-friendly guidebook
to smart growth and transportation planning.
New
Urbanists Coming to Old Gotham
Next week, June 7-10, more
than 1,000 leading smart growth professionals from across the country and
world will gather in NYC.
Traffic
Calming Grants Poised to Hit the Street in Nassau, Suffolk
A profile of one Long Island
traffic calming project recently awarded funds by the NYS DOT through the
state's “Local Safe Streets and Traffic Calming” program.
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