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A Bridgeport cyclist—legislation under debate in Connecticut would hold careless drivers responsible for harming pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable users | Photo: Ned Gerard, CT Post Today, Tri-State and other advocacy organizations—including the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters and the Connecticut Citizens Transportation Lobby—are testifying in favor of a Connecticut bill that would penalize [...] Click through to see the full ad In addition to running radio spots urging Rockland and Westchester residents to demand transit on the Tappan Zee, TSTC is placing ads in the Journal-News. For more information on transit’s place in the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project, visit [...] New York Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald. McDonald recently pushed for pedestrian improvements on the Hempstead Turnpike | Photo: Times-Union For pedestrians on Nassau County’s lethal Hempstead Turnpike, there’s a long road ahead, but at the urging of New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald, it will likely become less [...] Click through to see the film The Tri-State Transportation Campaign and Streetfilms have released a short documentary that chronicles the Lower Hudson region’s demand for transit in the I-287 corridor. This comes just two weeks before public hearings on a state plan to build a Tappan Zee replacement without a transit component. The [...] Towns in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are planning for safer, more walkable streets, and now the Environmental Protection Agency is lending a hand. Each year, the environmental agency’s Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program brings development professionals to improvement-minded municipalities across the country, where they advise officials, conduct day-long seminars, and assemble [...] Photo: Brittany Lyte, Connecticut Post Last week, several Connecticut Post reporters found that getting to work without a car isn’t as easy as the New Haven line’s record-breaking 2011 ridership would suggest. In a series entitled “Getting There,” the paper’s staff spent a day without a car, travelling instead by train, bus, bike, [...] Government officials and advocates across the tri-state area have been voicing opposition to the House transportation bill all day. If signed into law, the legislation would cut off the dedicated funding that public transportation receives from the national gas tax. Transit aid would have to come from the general fund, which would introduce an [...] Straphangers' report assessed platform repairs in MTA stations Photo: Heath Brandon MTA Chief Joe Lhota has been very busy of late, and there will be no rest for the weary. Straphangers just released their “State of the Station Platforms” report, which surveys the appearance and maintenance of 120 MTA subway stations, and the [...] The Delaware River Port Authority will meet on Wednesday to discuss adding a ADA-accessible bike and pedestrian ramp to the Ben Franklin Bridge, which connects Camden, New Jersey to downtown Philadelphia. Without the ramp, which was promised by the DRPA in 2010, Philadelphia-bound cyclists must carry their bikes up three flights of [...]
American Dream Meadowlands | photo: www.americandream.com Even before the developers of American Dream Meadowlands (formerly “Xanadu“)—a hulking, still-half-built retail development currently lumbering towards completion in North Jersey—announced plans to add a theme park to the project, they had been ignoring a serious issue: how people would get there. TSTC recently [...] |
 
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