The board of NJ Transit unanimously voted to raise fares and cut service yesterday, spurring activists, advocates, elected officials and individual citizens to bring their frustrations to the streets and the board room. Originally planning to raise fares 25% across the board with significant service cuts, the agency scaled back the proposal, reducing the local bus [...]
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Electronic meters like the one above would allow New Haven to dynamically price its parking. According to last week’s New Haven Independent, New Haven may be joining other cities that have embraced cutting-edge parking management: With motorists circling the block to find elusive downtown parking spots, aldermen are proposing a “dynamic” solution. It’s [...] Transit systems across the country are facing cuts, as this map from Transportation For America shows (click to view). A recent report from the American Public Transportation Association shows that the impacts of the recession on public transportation agencies across the country have gone from bad to worse to disastrous. Since January 1, [...] Last year, Gov. Paterson vetoed NYSDOT’s proposed five-year capital program, calling the $25.8 billion plan “unaffordable” given the state’s fiscal condition. In his budget, he proposed a two-year, $7 billion program instead. Last week, NYSDOT showed what that bare-bones plan would look like, releasing a new draft that cuts a promising smart growth program. [...] After intense pressure from riders across the state, NJ Transit announced today that it will reduce its planned fare increase for local bus and light rail riders to 10% but maintain 25% fare increases for commuter rail and long distance buses. Service cuts on local buses will also be reduced, and Access Link cuts [...] The following is a first-person account by Tri-State’s new Albany legislative advocate, Nadine Lemmon. Lemmon. I joined TSTC last week, and will be based in Albany working on sustainable transportation policies—helping to ensure safer streets, improved bus service, and adequate transit funding for all New Yorkers. Once a week on MTR, I’ll be [...] Although traffic fatalities have dropped sharply in New Jersey in the last few years, there has been little change in the number of pedestrian deaths. 157 pedestrians were killed on New Jersey’s streets in 2009, an increase of 14.6 percent over 2008 levels, according to a Tri-State Transportation Campaign analysis of State Police [...]
During a meeting with the Star-Ledger‘s editorial board last month, Governor Christie offered up some blunt honesty while discussing his plan to raise NJ Transit fares by 25% and cut service across the state (at 0:41 in the video): Editorial board member: What’s the difference between a gas tax [...] The BxM4C. Supporters of Westchester County’s BxM4C Bee-Line express bus to Manhattan, which will be canceled in June under a cost-cutting plan proposed by County Executive Rob Astorino, are holding an organizing session today to discuss a planned rally and other ways to fight the plan. The session begins at 7 pm at [...] Speaking in front of a hydrogen fuel cell bus in Hartford, CT House Speaker Chris Donovan called transit investments like the New Britain-Hartford Busway and New Haven-Springfield rail line a "surefire way of driving our economy and shrinking our carbon footprint." Last Wednesday, Tri-State and nearly a dozen other advocacy groups were [...] |
 
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