Metropolitan Transportation and the September 11 Crisis: Fragility and Resilience Jersey Commute Hardest Hit A Better Planning Environment? A Call on McGreevey to Honor Sprawl-Fighting Pledges London Set to Launch Cordon Pricing NJ's Crumbling Bridges: Town Gets Protection
The metropolitan region’s
transportation system has not fully recovered from the destruction wrought by
last year’s September 11 attack.
Multi-Modal Transportation to the Rescue
The reopening this week of the 1 and 9 subway lines downtown,
and the fact that subway ridership has not declined, attests
to the huge effort mounted by NYC Transit.
But the mass transit links underpinning that relationship are
inadequate. Planners know this, but
have been hitherto unable to bring the problem to the fore.
Some of the new transport policies and capacity in place in
the region are at least in part a product of much greater inter-agency
communication and consultation.
Twenty New Jersey
transportation, environmental and civic groups sent a letter to
Governor James McGreevey, urging him cancel the NJTPA's plans to pursue
capacity-adding projects.
London
– a city with traffic and congestion problems comparable to New York’s – is
about to actually do something about it.
Officials
from Hillside Township in Union County, NJ, have finally seen requested
emergency action by NJ DOT to protect against a crumbling bridge.
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