Current edition: Mobilizing the Region #431
September 29, 2003
Riders Fall Victim to City Bus Stand-off
Last week, four of the seven NYC private bus lines — Green Bus, Triboro Coach, Jamaica Buses and Command — sued the NYC Department of Transportation, saying the city has shown a “deliberate pattern and practice designed to strangle the companies” by not providing them with enough money to run the system.
Bus Funding Crisis Across Downstate NY
Mayor Bloomberg is not the only one trying to unload unwanted bus costs to someone else. As we reported last week, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi recently provoked the latest in a running series of funding crises at Long Island Bus by proposing to halve the county’s dwindling budget support for the agency in 2004.
Representatives of six unions representing Amtrak workers say they will walk off the job this Friday to protest weak Congressional funding for the railroad. Amtrak officials are seeking a court order to compel the workers to stay on the job. The unions, however, are calling the action a political protest rather than a labor action that could be prevented by a court under provisions of the Railway Labor Act.
City Says Traffic Calming is Alive and Well
The New York City Dept. of Transportation has written the Tri-State Transportation Campaign to refute an account of the conclusions of its Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming study presented here in July (MTR #424).
Transit Village or Swamp Thing?
Under the banner of transit-oriented development, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission is considering construction of large-scale developments around the new Secaucus Junction train station. The commission is apparently being approached by developers eager to take advantage of the new station, and wants to organize any development into a single overall plan.
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