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Is there really "no way" to pass cyclists safely on a road like Bergenline Ave. in North Bergen, as North Bergen Mayor and State Sen. Nicholas Sacco has said? On February 27, 78-year-old cyclist Bent Rasmussen was killed in an incident involving a school bus in Sparta, NJ. Initially, police believed the bus’ [...] Lincoln Tunnel-bound traffic in Hell's Kitchen, at the intersection of 37th St. and Ninth Ave. The Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association has won a victory for its neighborhood and for all of New York City in their suit against the city over the 2005 Hudson Yards rezoning that would have increased off-street parking on [...] The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance‘s (SBRWA) efforts to convince NYSDOT to replace the Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx with open space and mixed-use development will be featured in Wednesday’s episode of the PBS series “Blueprint America,” in an episode titled “Road to the Future.” According to PBS, “the documentary goes to three [...] Tri-State received the following letter from NJDOT Commissioner Stephen Dilts today in response to an MTR article which showed that the share of NJDOT’s capital program going to road expansion was higher than in recent years. I write in response to your May 4, 2009 Mobilizing the Region post entitled “Road Widening Starts [...] Last week the Federal Transit Administration gave the clearest sign yet that it plans to get behind the Access to the Region’s Core rail tunnel between New Jersey and NYC, and gave good marks to other projects in the region as well. In its annual report on the New Starts transit grant program, the agency [...] Buried deep in NJDOT’s 423-page draft 2010 Capital Program is $30 million for the “Cross-Harbor Freight Movement Project,” an enhancement of the Greenville Yard/Brooklyn railcar float system. This is the biggest chunk of rail freight funds in the program, which also includes $12.5 million in statewide rail freight funds and $750,000 for a freight [...] Sander. To the dismay of transit advocates, Elliot “Lee” Sander announced his resignation as CEO/executive director of the MTA yesterday. The news came a few hours after Governor Paterson signed a bill to reduce fare increases and stop service cuts and publicly called for reform and a shakeup of MTA management. Sander’s tenure [...] Connecticut and New Jersey have allocated more of their transportation stimulus funds than New York, but on fewer projects. (This table does not include transit, just Surface Transportation Program funds.) In what should be no surprise to readers of MTR, a ProPublica report on the federal stimulus has found that New York has [...] The MTA's funding saga may have catapulted transportation into the "top tier" of issues that the media and public care most about. Gov. Paterson and the New York State Legislature agreed on a transit funding plan today that they estimate will generate $2.26 billion for the MTA and prevent deep service cuts and [...] |
 
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