Last week, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell nominated Joseph F. Marie to be the new head of the Connecticut Department of Transportation. In doing so, Governor Rell chose the first ever transit expert to lead the agency. According to the Governor’s press release, Mr. Marie, currently the Director of Operations and Maintenance [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
UVA Has Big Plans for the Sheridan
April 29, 2008 – 2:34 pm
This past Saturday a set of architecture and landscape architecture students from the University of Virginia returned to the Bronx to present their visions for the future of the Sheridan Expressway footprint.
A community-based plan for the removal of the under-utilized highway is currently being studied by the NYS DOT as a result of advocacy by [...]
MTA Gearing Up For Real Action on Transit-Oriented Development
April 25, 2008 – 1:24 pm
It seems like the MTA is finally taking transit-oriented development (TOD) seriously. The agency announced that it “is developing a region-wide TOD program to support local communities throughout the MTA service territory,” and has added a description of this program to its website, which includes a single point of contact for communities interested in TOD [...]
Conservation Voters’ Long Island Agenda: Smart Growth, Smart Transportation
April 23, 2008 – 5:19 pm
This week the New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) released its Long Island Policy Agenda for 2008, a document with a heavy focus on smart growth and important transportation initiatives for Long Island. NYLCV called for “a new and more comprehensive growth strategy” that would be able to meet the needs of Long [...]
Tearing Down the Route 34 “Disconnector”
April 22, 2008 – 1:12 pm
A slide shows one City of New Haven vision for its post-Route 34 future.
On Wednesday, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the New Haven Urban Design League hosted a public event, attended by approximately 150 people, in order to raise awareness of and increase support for the “tear-down” of the Route 34 Connector in New Haven [...]
Your Input Needed on Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Transportation Issues
April 21, 2008 – 5:57 pm
Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen residents will get a chance next Wednesday to contribute to an ongoing study of traffic problems in their neighborhood. On April 30, NYCDOT, Manhattan Community Board 4, and CHEKPEDS (the Clinton Hell’s Kitchen Coalition for Pedestrian Safety) will host a public input session where community members can suggest improvements to the project planners [...]
Buses Bloom in the Bronx (and Beyond)
April 17, 2008 – 9:00 pm
Bx12 Select buses greeted attendees of the “Buses in the Boroughs” symposium Tuesday morning.
With spring colors and fragrance in full bloom at the New York Botanical Garden Tuesday morning, TSTC along with Transportation Alternatives, the Straphangers Campaign, and the Pratt Center for Community Development hosted a symposium on bus rapid transit to showcase how this [...]
Are NJ Funding Woes Threatening Access to the Region’s Core?
April 16, 2008 – 4:12 pm
At a New Jersey State Assembly budget hearing last Tuesday, NJDOT Commissioner Kris Kolluri told state legislators that the state needed to come up with $1.5 billion for the “Access to the Region’s Core” trans-Hudson rail tunnel and Penn Station extension by October or it would risk losing federal matching funds. This should serve as [...]
Connecticut Metro-North and Shore Line East Ridership Up
April 14, 2008 – 4:11 pm
Last week Governor M. Jodi Rell announced a dramatic jump in Connecticut rail ridership in 2007 — a combined increase of nearly 1.4 million riders on Metro-North and Shore Line East over 2006.
According to the Governor’s press release and subsequent news reports (The Day and Stamford Advocate), 2007 ridership on the state-run Shore Line East [...]
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Early Reflections on Congestion Pricing Defeat
April 10, 2008 – 12:42 pm
After the defeat of congestion pricing, many in the transportation advocacy community are facing two questions. Why did New York fail to pass congestion pricing? What can advocates do now? Two TSTC board members recently sought to answer those questions.
Writing in Gristmill, environmental economist Charles Komanoff gives his answers to the question of why congestion [...]
