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The Greenway's request would add off-road trail in an area that is unsafe for cyclists. Two important New Jersey events that were snowed out last month have been rescheduled for the coming weeks. New Jersey Future’s 2010 Redevelopment Forum — one of the state’s largest events for municipalities, developers, and advocates interested in smart growth [...] Our friends at Environment America are hiring a Transportation Advocate who will work out of their Washington, DC office. The position has four major areas of responsibility. In their words: The Transportation Advocate will be responsible for the following: Advocacy: Bringing problems and solutions to the attention of decision-makers—including members of Congress, the White House, and [...] [Update: This event will now take place on March 19.] This Friday is New Jersey Future’s Redevelopment Forum, one of the state’s largest events for municipalities, developers, and advocates interested in smart growth. The event’s keynote speaker is Shelly Poticha, the Senior Advisor for Sustainable Housing and Communities at the US Department of Housing and Urban [...] De Blasio. NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is mobilizing parents and straphangers in defense of the city’s endangered free student MetroCards. His office is seeking volunteers to hand out flyers at over 20 subway stations between 7am and 9:30am tomorrow, Thursday, February 18. The flyers will ask recipients to call Gov. Paterson and legislative [...] [Update: This hearing has been moved to March 24 due to the weather conditions.] The following has been reprinted from a letter by Dennis Markatos-Soriano, Michael Oliva, and Eric Weis of the East Coast Greenway: Dear Friends: The requested trail would add off-road trail in an area that is unsafe for cyclists (in fact, the Greenway currently [...] TSTC made frequent appearances in Albany last year, but will have a full-time presence for the first time in the years to come. New York’s transportation woes are numerous, and many of them can be traced back to one source. A lack of money for transit, bridge, and road projects; the inability of cities to [...] New Yorkers need leadership from their elected officials to avoid the devastating service cuts announced by the MTA today. The cuts have been tweaked from the December proposal, but will still impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and must be stopped. More bad news could be on the way. Governor Paterson’s budget, [...] Stories from 2009 (clockwise from bottom left): Advocates defeated major fare increases for buses and trains; the New Haven-Springfield rail line moved forward; State elected officials passed a complete streets law that will help pedestrians like these women in West Hartford; the Hartford-New Britain Busway. Like the other states in the region, Connecticut contended with [...] Counter-clockwise from left: A postcard signed by riders calling for a funded transit system; new MTA chairman Jay Walder; car-free Broadway; new plans for Rt. 347 on Long Island; the Staten Island Expressway bus lane, now open to carpools. New York State felt the brunt of the national recession in 2009, and its transportation agencies [...] |
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