The “gas tax holiday” is such a bad idea that we didn’t even want to honor it with a comment – but now that the New York State Senate has passed a bill to eliminate the state gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day and other states have begun lining up to join the [...]
This past Saturday a set of architecture and landscape architecture students from the University of Virginia returned to the Bronx to present their visions for the future of the Sheridan Expressway footprint.
A community-based plan for the removal of the under-utilized highway is currently being studied by the NYS DOT as a result of advocacy by [...]
Absent mitigation, Access to the Region’s Core will bring overwhelming crowds to the NYC crosswalks and sidewalks highlighted in black. [Image from ARC SDEIS.]
NJ Transit has released a Supplemental Draft EIS (SDEIS) for Access to the Region’s Core, a project whose main component is a new cross-Hudson tunnel which will add two additional commuter rail [...]
February 15, 2008 – 4:33 pm
7th Ave. between 34th and 35th Streets, during the afternoon rush.
A couple of weeks ago, MTR asked readers to come up with an evocative name for Tri-State’s forthcoming campaign to improve the walking conditions surrounding Penn Station. Currently, the streets and sidewalks surrounding the nation’s busiest rail station are inadequate at best. On [...]
December 3, 2007 – 2:21 pm
As noted in the press, NYC Transit has been passing out “rider report cards” on its subway lines to gauge customer satisfaction. Most TSTC staffers happen to be NYC Transit customers as well. So how satisfied are we? The third in a series of answers to that question comes from general counsel Kyle Wiswall, [...]
November 27, 2007 – 5:35 pm
Nearly ten years have passed since regional planning and transportation organizations and community groups in the South Bronx began their campaign to replace the 1.25-mile Sheridan Expressway with 28 acres worth of affordable housing, green space, bike paths, and new economic development opportunities. The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance, of which Tri-State is [...]
November 21, 2007 – 1:52 pm
The New York Post recently quoted a few business owners angry about the effect NYC’s separated Ninth Avenue bike lane is having (or potentially could have) on their bottom line. Typical among the complaints was that customers could no longer simply “pull up and run in.” Putting aside the possibility that business owners [...]
October 31, 2007 – 11:15 am
MTR was already impressed by the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation’s show of backbone in resisting NYC’s plan for more parking on Manhattan’s far west side; the plan requires a revision of NY’s State Implementation Plan for attaining carbon monoxide (CO) levels in accordance with EPA standards (see MTR # 565). We are happy [...]
