Current edition: Mobilizing the Region #414, May 5, 2003
Re-Connecting Development and Traffic
On Thursday, May 8th, the NJ State Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee, will consider draft legislation (S.2093) sponsored by Senator Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) and co-sponsor Senator Leonard Lance (R-Hunterdon). The bill, if enacted, would re-grant local planning boards in New Jersey the power to consider off-site traffic impacts of development, a right they lost with passage of the Municipal Land Use Laws in 1975.
While it’s impossible to predict whether the Straphangers Campaign lawsuit to delay or temporarily roll back Metropolitan Transportation Authority transit fares will prevail, the broader effort to compel MTA financial transparency and accountability appears to be making headway.
Call for Better Parking Starts NYC Bike Week
To mark the start of NYC’s annual Bike Week, sponsored by the NYC Dept. of Transportation and Transportation Alternatives (T.A.), City Councilmember David Yassky introduced a bill last Thursday (Intro 458) that would require building owners to make provisions for employees and tenants to bring bicycles into buildings.
Lower Manhattan Hub: Time to be Heard
The MTA has opened the public “scoping” record for the proposed lower Manhattan transit hub. The proposed project, costing approximately $750 million, would extend a renovated Fulton Street complex west, providing connection corridors to the N/R, E, and WTC PATH stations.
White House Makes Opening Bid for “TEA-3”
Policy observers in Washington report that the Bush Administration’s proposed bill for the reauthorization of the 1998 Transportation Equity Act (TEA-21) may be delivered to Congress as early as today. TEA-21 is the primary authorization for federal funding for highway and mass transit projects around the United States. It expires this September. Its successor is also expected to cover a 5-6 year period.
At the end of April, NYC Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff addressed a session of the Women’s Transportation Seminar about transportation and plans for the 2012 Olympics. Doctoroff essentially gave fairly well-known 2012 presentation, adding little detail to the plan’s vaguer elements, like the east-west axis of the “Olympic X.”
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