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.
MTA Budgets: New Process?
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.
Sound of Silence
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.
