Current edition: Mobilizing the Region #439
December 8, 2003
Bottom-Feeding in New Jersey: McGreevey's Tax for Tolls Scheme
By proposing to abolish Garden State Parkway tolls, Governor McGreevey has badly muddied the waters around his transportation commission's recommendation to raise New Jersey's gas tax to boost investment in transportation infrastructure.
Dealing with the MTA's Debt Bomb
The MTA's ballooning debt, long warned of by transit advocates (See MTR #s 112, 264, 275, 399 and others), has finally arrived as common knowledge by journalists, elected officials and other observers of the NY State fiscal landscape.
What's in NJ's Transport Finance Report
The report released during the shortened Thanksgiving week by Governor McGreevey's commission on transportation finance not only calls for raising the state gas tax, as we reported in MTR #438, but also depicts a system badly in need of increased investment.
Westchester County's budget committee restored most of the cuts to the county's 2004 budget this week. Unfortunately, the Bee-line bus system faces service reductions.
Staten Island 2020: Rich in Congestion?
The future of development on Staten Island is about to take a drastic turn. Last Tuesday, the Staten Island Growth Management Task Force released its final report on controlling development.
| Each week, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign publishes Mobilizing the Region, or MTR. MTR is a bulletin on New Jersey, New York and Connecticut transportation news and opinion from the perspective of advocacy for sustainable transportation. |
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