Bloomberg Pledges to Ride Transit, Attack Congestion
Republican candidate for NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg released an eight-page plan for “untangling traffic” last week.
Staffed
Subway Stations Popular Issue for NYC Hopefuls
3 of the 4 Democratic candidates
for NYC mayor convened news conferences to oppose the MTA's plan to close
or reduce hours at subway token booths.
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Mayoral Musings
At a Municipal Arts Society
forum on the future of planning in NYC last week, mayoral candidates Mark
Green and Alan Hevesi held forth on transportation.
State
of the Subways, 2001
The Straphangers Campaign
released its annual ratings of NYC subway lines last week showing improvement
in several key measures of service.
West
Shore Rail Hearings Sharpen Positions
NJTransit hearings on proposals
for new rail service in Bergen County began last week eliciting a variety
of responses new and old.
Legislature
OK’s NJ State Employees for Transit Benefit
The NJ Senate unanimously
approved Assembly bill A190 making state employees eligible for the
Federal pre-tax transit benefit.
Short
Lines
New York US Senators win
new funds for big MTA projects; a bill to boost rail freight awaits a hearing
in the NY state legislature.
Suffolk
Towns Propose Transit Hubs
Town officials from Babylon
and Huntington have recently put forward a worthy plan to reduce growing
auto congestion in the Route 110 corridor.
Reduction
for Overweight Trucks Halted
The NY State Assembly rethinks
A9230, a bill to increase the permissible weight of trucks in NYC and
reduce fines for overweight trucks.
A
Walking City? Not According to Project List
The NYC portion of the 2002-2004
NYMTC draft “transportation improvement program" (TIP) contains few funds
for pedestrian projects.
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