• NY State Says Staten Island Bus-way Likely
Last week, in articles in the NY Times and the Staten Island Advance, NY State
DOT officials said for the first time that the agency's long-range study for
the Staten Island Ex...
• NJ Trust Fund Hearing: Tuesday, May 30
The NJ Senate Transportation Committee will hold a
public hearing Tuesday, May 30th on the provision
of the Transportation Trust Fund renewal bill (S16)
that would dedicate a further portion of pet...
• NYC Wraps Up Big Rail Freight Study
The NYC Economic Development Corporation has finished
its "Cross-Harbor Rail Freight Major Investment
Study." The analysis, roughly five years in
the making, including earlier work on the &...
• East-of-Hudson Rail Freight - One
Step Forward, One Step Back?
In December, we reported that one of the constraints
to bringing freight rail down the east side of the
Hudson, south of Poughkeepsie, was low bridge clearance
(MTR #248). Since then, Metro-No...
• Tappan Zee II on the Front Burner
Rockland and Westchester County legislators met jointly
on May 18 to discuss the Tappan Zee II bridge and
commuter rail plan recommended by Governor Pataki's
I-287 Task Force. Legislators from bot...
• Big, Unanswered Questions About the I-287
Task Force's Tappan Zee II Plan
When will a decision be made about the value pricing
toll program the Task Force has recommended for the
Tappan Zee Bridge, and will that be a public process?
Will the agencies seek to educate...
• NYC Transit Scuttles S.I.-NJ Bus
Talks -'We don't do inter-state service'
NYC Transit officials abruptly withdrew from a high
level meeting of regional transportation agencies earlier
this month on Staten Island-NJ bus service over the
Bayonne Bridge, the S.I. Adv...
• Cops Caught Out on NYC Cycling Deaths
Confirming widespread suspicion, city officials last
week admitted that the NYPD had done no analysis
of culpability in fatal bike-auto crashes, effectively
disowning January police statements ...
• NYC Council Calls on Traffic Safety Experts
Police malfeasance came under fire at a Monday City
Council hearing on the rise in cyclist and pedestrian
deaths last year. Pedestrian and cycling advocates
noted that Mayor Giuliani's much-bal...
