Business, Transit Groups Challenge NYC Candidates
Joined by five former top city transportation officials, groups called on NYC mayoral candidates to back a comprehensive plan to improve transportation.
Franks
Details Transportation Agenda
Last week, former Congressman
and gubernatorial candidate Bob Franks released a transportation agenda
and sparred over transportation issues in a televised debate.
New
Urbanists Plot Fight Against Sprawl
Maryland Governor Parris
Glendening outlined his state’s efforts to promote smart growth at the
annual Congress for New Urbanism in NYC last week.
Meanwhile
in Staten Island...
NY State DOT recently opened
a new highway ramp off of the West Shore Expressway that Maryland’s smart
growth policies would have prohibited.
NYC
DOT Re-Shapes Truck Study
NYC transportation commissioner
Weinshall has backed changes to a controversial NYC truck routing study
supported by community groups and reformers.
Jersey
City Vote is Likely Demise of Bergen Arches Highway
The victory of Glenn Cunningham
as the nextJersey City mayor should put plans for a Bergen Arches Expressway
to rest.
CT
Strategy Board in Limbo with Budget Vote On Hold
Legislators in Hartford
leave reform bills to die as the session ends with no budget agreement.
Amtrak
Shows Signs of Trouble
Last week, Amtrak made moves
to back out of a deal with NYS DOT for high speed rail and petitioned to
mortgage Penn Station.
2001:
an Info Odyssey
An NYC transportation planner
compares state's resources and struggles to do her job while maneuvering
bureaucratic hurdles to accessing public information.
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