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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 [...] A new website for a Veolia-run Long Island Bus system suggests that service cuts are on the way next year, and declines to guarantee that fares will stay the same in 2012. Things are looking worse and worse for Long Island Bus riders, who face privatization of the system next year. Over the [...] A concept rendering of a potential new East River esplanade and greenway. The last of three public forums on a proposal to finally fill in a gap in the East River Greenway on NYC’s East Side is this Tuesday. Elected officials organizing the forums — City Councilmember Dan Garodnick, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, State [...] A bicycle-sharing station next to a rail stop in Washington, D.C. New York City officials announced today that they had selected Alta Bike Share as the vendor for a bicycle-sharing system, with 10,000 bikes, that will launch next summer and initially stretch from 79th Street in Manhattan to Bedford-Stuyvesant and Windsor Terrace in [...] |
 
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