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According to the FTA, both Hartford and New Britain have applied to Connecticut's TOD grant program. While Tri-State is making progress administering our One Region Funders’ Group supported transit-oriented development (TOD) grants, the state of Connecticut’s TOD program is getting off to a much slower start. Over a year and a half after the Connecticut [...] On March 4, Carteret became the newest participant in the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) “Live Where You Work” homebuyer incentive program. The smart-growth-oriented program began as a pilot program with the city of Trenton in February 2008, and is designed to build stronger communities by encouraging people to live closer to their [...] This advertisement, which MTR spotted on the back of a New Jersey business journal (we won’t identify who took it out), just goes to show that “better” is a subjective word. The Route 4 & 17 Interchange project, pictured above, expanded both roads. Not long after the completion of the project, the nearby Westfield [...] Older tri-state residents bear a significantly higher risk of being killed as a pedestrian than do their younger neighbors, or their cohorts in the rest of the country, according to a new analysis released today by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. (See TSTC fact sheets and downstate NY, NJ, and Conn. press releases.) Between 2005 and 2007, [...] The Secaucus Junction train station (center) is not an "urban transit hub." Three bills of interest have been making their way through the New Jersey Legislature, bringing mostly positive changes to the table. On the traffic calming front, A2731 (Wisniewski/Greenstein) is awaiting the Governor’s signature after passing both houses the last week in October (Update [...] A widening of Route 110 in Suffolk County has likely been delayed. According to a New York State Budget Bulletin released November 4, all agency projects “not involving Federal reimbursement of at least 75 percent or impacting public health and/or safety” will be subject to a pre-approval process for moving forward. For Long Island, this [...] Compared to 1980, less New Jerseyans (and less Americans) walk or carpool to work. More New Jerseyans take transit to work than in 1980, mainly because more are working in New York City. A new report from New Jersey Future — titled Getting to Work: Reconnecting Jobs With Transit — is a convincing demonstration of [...] Don’t miss out on two smart growth events being organized by TSTC allies. Both are next Thursday, November 13: The seventh annual Vision Long Island Smart Growth Summit will bring together community, professional, and government leaders who are working to promote the sensible growth that Long Island needs to solve pressing problems like a shortage of [...] The New York State Department of Transportation wants local governments to plan new development in their towns according to principles of smart growth and transit-oriented development. To this end, NYSDOT launched the Smart Planning Program website (shown at right) in June as a resource for local decision-makers interested in linking land use and transportation [...] Can CA Senate Bill 375 carpetbag to smart planning success in our region? A bill that is working its way through the California legislature may serve as a model for connecting land use and transportation here in the Tri-State area. The bill, SB 375, requires regional planning agencies to include a sustainability analysis, or [...] |
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