The Port Authority has selected two consultants to study the feasibility of all electronic tolling (or AET, as it’s termed in the toll road world) at its crossings. According to Toll Road News, Traffic Technologies Inc. and Jacobs Carter Burgess will consult on the $12 million project. Design and factory testing will start in 2010, [...]
On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Brooklyn to call on Governor Paterson to send the Atlantic Yards mega-project back to the drawing board. The controversial project, which would bring an arena and 17 skyscrapers to Prospect Heights, has reportedly been stalled and scaled down due to financial problems.
From a transportation [...]
This afternoon Governor Paterson recommended Chris Ward, currently managing director of the General Contractors Association, as the Port Authority’s next executive director. A former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, Ward is well respected throughout the region and is an excellent choice to run the agency. Congratulations, Chris! For more, see [...]
Brooklyn Speaks, of which Tri-State is a member, is co-hosting a rally to stop the demolition of the proposed Altantic Yards project. From the brooklynspeaks.org website:
“As originally proposed, the Atlantic Yards project would overwhelm surrounding neighborhoods, further clog already overburdened streets, create outdated superblocks that deaden street life, overtax public transit, streets, water and [...]
The New York State Assembly failed to bring congestion pricing to a vote yesterday, forfeiting $354 million in federal money for improved transit service, a long-term source of transit funding, faster commutes for subway and bus riders, and movement towards a greener region. The plan had to be approved by midnight last night to qualify [...]
Campaign for New York’s Future members rallied at City Hall today, the day after the New York City Council voted in favor of congestion pricing.
Yesterday, the New York City Council voted 30-20 in favor of NYC’s proposed congestion pricing plan to fund transit and reduce traffic by charging drivers entering Manhattan south of 60th [...]
Suffolk County’s vision for the future: Making sure roads like this become congested [Image from NYMTC 2008 Annual Report].
At the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council’s annual meeting last week, principal members laid out their visions for growth over the next few decades. Principals, or their representatives, from Nassau, Westchester, Rockland, and New [...]
February 15, 2008 – 5:14 pm
New Jersey press outlets have been fixated on Governor Corzine’s asset monetization plan, printing dozens of articles daily. But few have covered potential changes that could make the plan more palatable to many in the state. Republicans, who hold 32 of 80 seats in the State Assembly and 17 of [...]
January 30, 2008 – 4:47 pm
Governor Spitzer’s 2008-2009 executive budget released last week largely focuses on health care, education, and economic development, though a closer look offers a few noteworthy transportation items. Broadly, transportation has a decent showing in the budget, which calls for a 5% overall increase in spending.
In good news for congestion pricing advocates, the budget creates a [...]
January 14, 2008 – 9:24 am
Last week, the MTA announced that it would remove the toll barriers on the Brooklyn-bound side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The toll booths have not been used for two decades, since the removal of the Brooklyn-bound toll in 1986. At the announcement, MTA Executive Director Elliot Sander told the Staten Island Advance that high-speed tolling, [...]
