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.
Amtrak on the Brink
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.
