USA Today recently highlighted another victory in the burgeoning national movement to tear down or relocate urban highways and create vibrant neighborhoods in their place:
Oklahoma has a radical solution for repairing the state’s busiest highway.
Tear it down. Build a park.
The aging Crosstown Expressway — an elevated 4.5-mile stretch of Interstate 40 — will be demolished [...]
It looks like Long Island Bus, long the unwanted stepchild of government, has finally found a home in the MTA family. Cost savings and increased LI Bus service could be the largest impact of the MTA’s Wednesday announcement that it is combining LI Bus, NYC Transit’s bus division, and MTA Bus into a regional bus [...]
It seems like the MTA is finally taking transit-oriented development (TOD) seriously. The agency announced that it “is developing a region-wide TOD program to support local communities throughout the MTA service territory,” and has added a description of this program to its website, which includes a single point of contact for communities interested in TOD [...]
Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen residents will get a chance next Wednesday to contribute to an ongoing study of traffic problems in their neighborhood. On April 30, NYCDOT, Manhattan Community Board 4, and CHEKPEDS (the Clinton Hell’s Kitchen Coalition for Pedestrian Safety) will host a public input session where community members can suggest improvements to the project planners [...]
At a New Jersey State Assembly budget hearing last Tuesday, NJDOT Commissioner Kris Kolluri told state legislators that the state needed to come up with $1.5 billion for the “Access to the Region’s Core” trans-Hudson rail tunnel and Penn Station extension by October or it would risk losing federal matching funds. This should serve as [...]
April 10, 2008 – 12:42 pm
After the defeat of congestion pricing, many in the transportation advocacy community are facing two questions. Why did New York fail to pass congestion pricing? What can advocates do now? Two TSTC board members recently sought to answer those questions.
Writing in Gristmill, environmental economist Charles Komanoff gives his answers to the question of why congestion [...]
Members of the press and elected officials had harsh words for state legislators after Albany failed to vote on congestion pricing. A sampling of responses:
“Mr. Silver has now ensured the uncertain future of an already strained mass transit system and the continued growing problems of gridlock and tailpipe emissions. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.” - New [...]
On March 31, the COMMUTE (Communities United for Transportation Equity) coalition took out an advertisement in the New York Daily News in the form of an open letter asking New York’s elected officials to vote in favor of congestion pricing. MTR reprints the text of the letter in full below:
Dear New York City Council and [...]
On Tuesday, Tappan Zee Bridge/I-287 Corridor project team consultant DMJM Harris quietly released a Request for Proposals, seeking the services of a contractor to perform transit-oriented development training for communities along the I-287 corridor. The development is a huge victory for TSTC and other groups, such as Scenic Hudson and Regional Plan Association, which have [...]
The MTA’s credibility has not been helped by its decision to delay planned service improvements; the news broke just three weeks after the agency announced that the improvements would go forward. But the immediate cause of the delay — March real estate tax revenue which came in $31.5 million lower than projected — points to [...]
