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Police enforcement can't be relied on to keep bus lanes clear. Today, New York City DOT officially announced its plan to bring Select Bus Service to First and Second Avenues. The plan, which will bring bus lanes to both avenues between 125th and Houston Streets, should speed travel times on the M15 (NYC’s [...] New York City received a substantial slice of the transportation stimulus pie: $266 million, more than was received by 18 states and any other municipal government. At a recent hearing before the City Council Committee on Transportation, NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said that this funding had helped to advance 25 projects that would otherwise [...] (Click to enlarge.) Earlier this year, Tri-State ally Vision Long Island began conducting visioning sessions with community members, civic groups and elected officials from Hicksville to develop an action plan to reinvigorate the hamlet’s downtown and area around the train station, which happens to be one of the busiest in the LIRR system. [...] A new report from AARP New York, authored by Tri-State’s Michelle Ernst, highlights the dangers to pedestrians and bicyclists in five upstate counties. The report, Making New York a Complete Streets State, examines state and federal data to identify the most dangerous intersections to walk or bicycle in upstate’s most populous counties. Its release [...] Last month, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) joined state DOTs, transportation and construction unions, and concrete, highway, asphalt, stone, and gravel lobbyists to call for a “rewrite” of the energy bill recently introduced by Senators Kerry and Lieberman. The American Power Act would set aside up to $6.25 billion for the transportation sector [...] Disability rights advocates and others protested NJ Transit service cuts earlier this year. Just one day after NJ Transit’s service cuts went into effect, NJ Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff announced that the state needed to make additional cuts to close a $325 million budget gap by June 30, the end of the fiscal year. [...] How the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line fits into the New England states' vision for high-speed rail. The Connecticut Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the Massachusetts and Vermont Departments of Transportation, will be holding informational meetings in the coming weeks on the three states’ “2030 Vision for High Speed, Intercity and Regional Rail” service. [...] |
 
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