CT
Panel Looks to Big Road Plan
CT’s
Transportation Strategy Board, charged with charting a new course for
transportation policy, is in danger of relying on old-school, sprawl-causing
highway expansion.
Transit
Unions Call for Sweeping Improvements to NYC Bus System
Representatives
of NYC transit workers called last week for city and MTA officials to
implement sweeping changes to the city bus system.
Groups
Launch Campaign to Stop Widening of Suffolk Route 16
Suffolk
County residentshave launched a campaign to urge County Executive Robert
Gaffney to halt a plan to widen Portion Road in central Suffolk County.
Bedford
Residents to Drivers: Share the Road
The
town of Bedford in Westchester County has undertaken a campaign to promote
traffic calming and reduce traffic along its streets.
Memo
to Bridge Toll Advocates: Tighten Up Your Act
Did
toll boosters blow it at a community forum last week in traffic-plagued
Brooklyn Heights?
Campaign
Urges NJ Transit to Delay MOM
Campaign
executive director Janine Bauer issued a statement urging NJ Transit to put
MOM on hold until the agency’s economic woes are addressed.
Westchester
Bus Service on the Block
Spano’s
budget calls for a fare hike of 15% and service cuts on 41 of 67 bus lines.
Some lines would be eliminated.
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