Current edition: Mobilizing the Region #461
June 7, 2004
Business, Green Groups Unite on LIRR Project
The Coalition for the LIRR Third Track, a group of fourteen environmental, business, planning, transit and community groups, announced its formation late last month.
According to reports earlier this week, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is threatening to discontinue the use of red-light cameras at intersections throughout NYC.
NY State Transportation Panel Announced
NY State Transportation Commissioner Joseph Boardman recently named the members of a state-wide advisory panel.
$860 Million West Street Tunnel Earns National Rebuke
Governor Pataki's proposal to build an $860 million, four-block West Street By-Pass Tunnel adjacent to the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan was found to be one of the most wasteful highway proposals in the United States..
TEA-3 Bill Heads for Final Act in Congress
The U.S. House and Senate have appointed their members to the conference committee that will hammer out details of the 6-year transportation funding authorization Congress has been developing for the past year.
MetroCard Future for Bee-Line Riders?
Westchester officials are cautiously optimistic that they may get the needed funding to implement free transfers between Westchester Bee Line buses and New York City subways.
Making Transit Work in the Meadowlands
Throughout the comment period for the Xanadu environmental impact statement, environmentalists, transportation watchdogs, and editorial boards have been citing flaws in the traffic analysis.
Congestion Weighs on CT Commuters
According to a recent New Haven Register/Sacred Heart University poll, traffic is such a pressing issue that almost half the respondents would be willing to pay highway tolls if they funded transportation improvements.
Scores of New Yorkers rallied with advocacy group Transportation Alternatives at City hall on May 25th to goad City Council Speaker Gifford Miller into scheduling a car alarm ban.
| 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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