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The Center for Neighborhood Technology's Housing + Transportation Affordability Index. Click through to explore. Think living in Manhattan is expensive? Try living in the suburbs. While this may fly in the face of conventional wisdom, a new analysis by the Center for Neighborhood Technology finds that Manhattan residents spend a lower percentage [...] The Collingswood bike share is one of several in New Jersey | Photo: collingswood.com Last week, Red Bank, New Jersey took an important step towards implementing the Jersey Shore’s first bike share program, a rental system that makes bikes available for short distance trips. Red Bank is just one of many New Jersey municipalities [...]
This Friday, March 9, New Jersey Future will hold its annual Redevelopment Forum, a major event for municipalities, developers, and smart growth advocates in the state. New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno will deliver the opening remarks, and the keynote speaker will be Chris Leinberger, an author, professor, visiting Brookings Institution Fellow, [...] NJ Transit's Scorecard survey results were released recently. The third time’s a charm, but not for NJ Transit. Customer satisfaction was down slightly in the system’s third quarterly Scorecard survey. On a 1-10 scale, overall customer satisfaction was down from 5.3 to 5.1, an outcome that NJ Transit classifies as “satisfactory.” Some 17,000 [...] 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 [...] |
 
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