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.
