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Municipalities interested in transit-oriented development: This could be you! (Photo of award ceremony at Stratford, CT.) This Friday is the deadline for municipalities to submit letters of interest for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign/One Region Funders’ Group’s Transit-Oriented Development community assistance grant program. The program provides grants between $10,000 and $50,000 for municipalities interested [...] A national freight program could help pay for port and rail projects that are central to the region's economy. Photo of Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal by Albert E. Theberge/NOAA. [Update: On Wednesday, the Senate's Commerce Committee voted to include much of the FREIGHT Act in its portion of the Senate's transportation reauthorization bill. More [...] Governor Cuomo and NYMTC still have the opportunity to make transit part of the Tappan Zee project. Photo: Patja On Friday, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) announced a request for $18.6 million in federal transportation funds to begin preliminary engineering work on the Tappan Zee Bridge project. The amendment to the [...] NJ's lame duck legislature is still hard at work. Photo: runran As New Jersey’s lame duck legislature hobbles towards January, there are still a few important items on their agenda: In late August, Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) introduced a resolution to combat a proposed rule change that could weaken environmental protections in the state. [...]
Our friends over at the Long Island Index have launched a new website as part of their Build a Better Burb project. In addition to being really, really sleek, the website has tons of information about Long Island downtowns, short backgrounders on transit-oriented development, and lots of profiles of [...] The W train was cut during MTA's service reductions in 2010. Photo: Heath Brandon. The tax reform bill currently moving through Albany includes several provisions that could hurt transit riders. First, the bill would whittle down the payroll tax that currently helps fund the MTA – under the terms of the bill, private [...] The South Jersey area needs safe biking and walking routes, and we’re helping put them there. Along with the William Penn Foundation and a number of local partners in southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the TSTC has been working to improve safety for South Jersey roads and create a network of regional trails radiating [...] A crowd of Long Islanders looked on as County Executive Mangano spoke at Monday's public hearing. Just one day after a heated public hearing on the proposed privatization of Long Island Bus, a surprise announcement has raised even more questions about the proposal’s viability. Earlier today, Veolia Environnement—the European conglomerate whose subsidiary is vying [...] Photo by Brett Weinstein In October, Governor Cuomo announced plans to “fast track” the Tappan Zee Bridge’s reconstruction. But amidst all the hurry, something fell by the wayside: the planned bus rapid transit (BRT) line that was to run from Suffern to Port Chester. In a Journal News op-ed yesterday, TSTC’s Executive Director, Kate [...] Between 2003 and 2010, there were 1,003 pedestrian fatalities and 40,150 pedestrian injuries in New Jersey. Rutgers University’s recent “2011 Pedestrian Safety Tracking Report” provides an in-depth analysis of these pedestrian-vehicle crashes—here are some of their most interesting findings: In addition to its analysis, the Rutgers report contains lots of valuable data visualizations. [...] |
 
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