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Glynn. NYSDOT Commissioner Astrid Glynn announced on Monday that she will resign effective May 8, ending a tenure which began in February 2007 and was marked by progress on smart growth issues and the release of the state’s first comprehensive rail plan in over two decades. Deputy Commissioner Stanley Gee will serve as [...] Sometimes it becomes very clear why many people don’t trust government. When government agencies and officials are slow to respond, give incorrect information, or just don’t perform the duties charged to them by the public, the result is the loss of public trust. Here are three recent examples — two which Tri-State directly experienced, [...] [Update: The bill passed the Planning and Development Committee.] A Connecticut complete streets bill continues to make its way through the legislative process. Yesterday, the State Senate referred Senate Bill 735 to the Joint Committee on Planning and Development, which will hold a hearing on the bill on Monday, April 13th, at 1 pm [...] The Sheridan Expressway near Westchester Ave. The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance has created an online petition as a piece of its campaign to open up 28 acres of land in the South Bronx for affordable housing, mixed-use retail and open space. The land is currently occupied by the redundant and lightly traveled [...]
Late last month, Transportation For America’s map of planned fare hikes and service cuts got the full CNN treatment, including some polished-looking graphics and the inexplicable use of three television monitors (surprisingly, the high-tech network didn’t roll out the hologram it used on election night). But the polish ends once [...] Red light cameras will be allowed outside of New York City for the first time. After years of failing to do so, the New York State Assembly and Senate both passed red light camera bills that will expand New York City’s program by 50 cameras (allowing 150 cameras to operate in the city) [...]
(Click to watch – film will open in a separate window.) New York City now has a film highlighting its very own bus rapid transit program, the Select Bus Service (SBS) in the Bronx. TSTC’s associate director, Veronica Vanterpool, took Nick Whitaker from Streetfilms on a tour of the BX12 Select, [...] An early rendering of NYSDOT's Route 347 plan. Things are starting to change for the better at the Long Island regional office of NYSDOT, Region 10. For years, TSTC, community groups, and smart growth advocates have criticized Region 10 for being too highway-oriented and dismissive of community interests. Calls for reform were heard [...] The SI Advance has decried "the lack of steady enforcement" of the SI Expressway's previously bus-only lanes. Even as NYSDOT shows signs of reform on Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley, the state agency’s recent work on Staten Island reflects a business-as-usual orientation. Last month NYSDOT opened up the Brooklyn-bound Staten Island [...] In 2007, TSTC finally joined the 21st century by converting Mobilizing the Region from an email and fax newsletter to the blog you are reading now. But we eventually realized that we had fallen behind the technological curve again. First, TSTC staffers started getting Facebook messages from the Straphangers Campaign. Then, Transportation Alternatives started [...] |
 
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