Current edition: Mobilizing the Region #445
February 2, 2004
MTA Budget, Projects Head Into Crucial Year
An unfocused list of big transit system expansion projects coupled with the increasingly enormous debt payments featured in the MTA's budgets are likely to make the upcoming debate and negotiations over the 2005-2009 MTA capital plan even more difficult than those of previous years.
NJ DOT Calls Off Highway Bypass
After facing opposition from residents, and environmentalists for years, and under Governor Jim McGreevey's emphasis on smart growth, NJ DOT has tabled plans to build the unnecessary and sprawl-inducing Millstone Bypass in central NJ.
MTA Says it Won't Subsidize Ratner
MTA leaders says that any transfer of air rights and yard space at the LIRR storage area along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn will be a sale for market value, not a hand-off to subsidize a new NBA basketball arena and related commercial and residential development.
Hundreds of Bus Riders Say No to Cuts
About 300 angry bus riders attended a meeting last week on drastic cuts proposed for Westchester County's Bee Line bus system.
Metro-North's Winter of Woe: Whose Fault?
Although commuters burned out by Metro-North Rail Road's frequent train cancellations and delays this winter aim their ire at rail managers, the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council blames the Rowland Administration's skinflint transportation budgets for the rail system's winter of woe.
| 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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