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The bus rapid transit system planned for the Tappan Zee Bridge corridor would not add $10+ billion to the project's cost. As Hudson Valley and regional elected officials, civic leaders, and citizens have weighed in on the new plans for the Tappan Zee project, the media has done an extensive and accurate job [...] (Click to view the report.) A new report from Transportation For America, The Fix We’re In For: The State of Our Nation’s Busiest Bridges, shows that millions of vehicles cross structurally deficient bridges in the region’s metro areas every day. The region’s aging infrastructure means that drivers frequently cross structurally deficient bridges, particularly in [...] At CommuterBenefitsWorkForUs.com, workers can e-mail Congress in support of transit benefits. Many workers in the region who take advantage of commuter tax benefits could be out in the cold next year. Federal law allows workers to use pretax income to cover the cost of commuting, up to a limit of $230/month for parking [...] New Jerseyans support smart growth, a statewide planning strategy, expanding transit, and maintaining existing roads, according to a new poll released today by the Monmouth University Polling Institute. The poll was commissioned by Tri-State Transportation Campaign, New Jersey Future, the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, and Smart Growth America. New Jerseyans strongly support statewide planning and livable communities. [...] This graphic from the Wall Street Journal shows the city's timeline for filling in the Midtown gap in the East River Greenway. Mayor Bloomberg, NY state legislative leaders, and elected officials representing Manhattan’s East Side announced at a Wednesday City Hall press conference that the city and state had signed an agreement to [...] A federal government shutdown is officially off the table — at least for a few more weeks. The House voted on Tuesday to pass a “continuing resolution” that funds government operations through November 18, which means legislators can focus some attention on the fiscal year 2012 budget. The Depts. of Transportation and Housing & [...] "$2.5 million is woefully inadequate to run a bus system of the size and scope of Nassau County’s," TSTC executive director Kate Slevin said on Monday at the county's Executive and Legislative Building. "Without an increase in funding, bus riders will face service cuts and fare increases next year." LI Bus riders, faith [...] According to the NY State Comptroller's office projects, debt service on the MTA's bonds will top $3 billion a year by 2018. Future generations of transit riders should beware the MTA’s debt-backed plan to support its capital construction program. As a September report from NY State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli makes clear, the plan [...] A conceptual image of what a transit-oriented development near the Ronkonkoma LIRR station could look like. A promising transit-oriented development project around the Ronkonkoma LIRR station in Suffolk County seems to be moving forward, thanks to an unusual amount of cooperation between two bordering municipalities. The Town of Brookhaven (which includes the station [...] ConnDOT's Eugene Colonese loads a bicycle onto a prototype rack being tested on a Metro-North train at Union Station in New Haven on Thursday. Metro-North Railroad officials are testing bike racks on the railroad’s newest rail cars, the M-8s, which are being rolled out on the New Haven Line. The agency had prototype [...] |
 
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