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The Sunrise Highway has been the site of many pedestrian fatalities. Here, policemen tape off an area near where high school student Brittany Vega was killed while crossing the road | Photo: Jim Staubitser/Newsday Today, New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, and New York State [...]  Data: MTA The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) has announced that the surface parking lot for the Atlantic Yards project has been scaled back. The lot for the northern Prospect Heights development—home of the Barclay’s Center—was initially going to accommodate 1,100 spaces, but it is now slated to have fewer than 550. The BrooklynSpeaks coalition has previously advocated for the reduction of parking by 50% and the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council called for the lot to adhere to New York City Department of City Planning regulations for surface parking lot design. » Continue reading… Capital Bikeshare in Washington, D.C. has a 97% farebox recovery ratio; if New Haven gets funding for its own, it expects roughly the same | Photo: flickr/zcopley At Tri-State’s April 11 Sustainable Streets forum, New Haven Director of Transportation, Traffic, and Parking Jim Travers told attendees that his city was looking into a [...] Riders board the NICE Bus at the Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center Tomorrow, April 25, Nassau County’s Bus Transit Committee will host a public meeting beginning at 4p.m. At the event, officers will be elected, the committee will “attend to other organizational issues,” and Veolia, which assumed control over the county’s bus system on [...] Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver backs legislation to regulate the intercity bus industry | Photo: assembly.ny.state.us In 2009, Tri-State released a report on improving New York City’s booming intercity bus business, which, over the past decade, has significantly altered the way that people travel between the metropolises of the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic. Now, New [...] An NBC reporter walks through an empty parking garage by Yankee Stadium | Image: NBC New York Several years ago, when the Yankees proposed to build a new stadium in the Bronx, advocates campaigned against the parking garages that were planned to go with it. The facilities, they reasoned, were unnecessary, since fans [...] Hempstead, the largest township in the country, has passed a complete streets policy that builds upon several recent victories for Long Island pedestrians and cyclists. New York State has promised to improve the deadly Hempstead Turnpike, pictured above, and now the Town of Hempstead has committed to making its streets safer for all users [...] Governor Christie overstated cost estimates for the ARC project The Government Accountability Office has found that the Christie administration exaggerated the potential costs associated with the Access to the Region’s Core tunnel—the very same costs that the governor used to justify shutting down the largest public infrastructure project in the country. The project, if [...] Increased state funding could help build on Suffolk County Transit's rapid growth | Photo: Newsday New York State’s recently adopted budget included additional funding for the bus systems in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. These new funds present an opportunity to help mitigate proposed service cuts in Nassau, and they could help ease fare [...] Alderman Justin Elicker spoke out in favor of the streetcar study | Photo: New Haven Independent Earlier this week, New Haven’s Board of Aldermen rejected a $780,000 federal grant that would have funded a study on bringing a streetcar system to the city’s downtown. This shortsighted decision lets crucial federal funding slip through the [...] |
 
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