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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 [...] The decision was unanimous—this morning, the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) Finance Committee moved to build a pedestrian and bicycle ramp on the Ben Franklin Bridge. The ramp will replace a three-story stair tower on the bridge’s New Jersey side, which will let pedestrians, bicyclists, and wheelchair users get to and from Philadelphia with [...] A PATCO train travels across the Ben Franklin Bridge, from Philadelphia to New Jersey | Photo: Bob Snyder During the first three quarters of 2011, transit ridership was up by 1.8% nationwide, but PATCO’s numbers rose even faster. The South Jersey-Philadelphia commuter line’s ridership grew by 3.62% in 2011, a figure that even [...] A proposed Hudson-Bergen Light Rail extension could go as far north as Tenafly | Map: NJ Transit Four public hearings were held last week on the long-awaited draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for a proposed Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) extension. The DEIS proposes to extend the HBLR, which currently operates in Hudson County [...] 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 [...]  Graphic: Alliance for Biking and Walking This week, the Alliance for Biking and Walking released its 2012 Benchmarking Report, and the timing is impeccable. As Streetsblog points out, the release coincides with the soon-to-appear national surface transportation bill, and in the tri-state region, it comes just after state legislatures have gotten into full swing. With statistics, case studies and loads of other resources, the Benchmarking Report shows legislators where the nation’s biking and walking infrastructure stands. After the jump, TSTC presents some of the report’s most interesting figures. Photo: Accretion Disc On January 5th, the NJDOT made West Windsor the 24th Transit Village in New Jersey. In designating West Windsor as a Transit Village, the NJDOT officially ”recognizes and supports the municipality’s efforts to create mixed-use development within walking distance of NJ TRANSIT’s Princeton Junction train station.” “The whole idea is [...] New Jersey Future is looking for nominees for their Smart Growth Awards, which honor outstanding planning and development in the state. Winners will be recognized at the annual Smart Growth Awards celebration on June 7, 2012. The deadline for nominations is Friday, February 3, 2012. For more information, visit www.njfuture.org/sga. [...]
Vehicle fatalities in New Jersey Data from NJ State Police (link below) 2012’s just begun, and five people have already been killed in New Jersey car crashes. This spate of deaths comes after a bad year for vehicle safety in the Garden State: there were 13% more fatal motor vehicle crashes and [...] |
 
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