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 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.
Stung Again in Westchester
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.
