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Bus lane cameras would be a major improvement over existing enforcement. New York City has big plans for speeding up buses, seeking to build on the success of the Select Bus Service on Fordham Road in the Bronx with new projects on 34th Street and First and Second Avenues in Manhattan, Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, [...] A report released last month by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign named Atlantic Avenue the most dangerous road for pedestrians in Brooklyn with 9 deaths over the three years from 2006 to 2008. Nearby Fourth Avenue ranked third with 6 pedestrian fatalities in the same period. Both roads ranked among the most dangerous in the entire [...] The Pennsauken Transit Center (in light blue) would connect the Atlantic City Rail Line, River Line light rail, and local buses — all of which are facing cutbacks in service. On Friday, Vice President Biden and USDOT Secretary LaHood announced funding for 191 new Recovery Act transit projects in 42 states. Unfortunately, this final round [...] A typical view of what the 34th Street makeover would look like. NYCDOT has another daring project planned for Midtown: the transformation of 34th Street through the addition of a physically separated busway and pedestrian improvements. The changes should speed up buses in a congested crosstown corridor and provide some breathing room for pedestrians who [...] Over 40,000 New Yorkers signed petitions against service cuts, which were delivered to MTA Headquarters this month by NYC Council Speaker Quinn, Council Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca, and advocates. New Yorkers are mad as hell about plans to cut transit service, Access-a-Ride, and free NYC student MetroCards — public hearings across the MTA region [...] Public hearings on the MTA’s proposed service cuts begin tonight in Nassau and Westchester Counties, and will continue over the next week in the five boroughs and Rockland and Suffolk Counties. Background The MTA is proposing: Major service cuts to MTA subway, bus, and commuter rail throughout the region. These include cancellation of the M and W subway [...] The cost of providing free NYC student MetroCards is shared by the MTA, city, and state. But the MTA's share of the cost has grown over the years, and the state dropped its share to nearly nothing in 2009. At tomorrow’s MTA board meeting, New York City students will ask to meet with MTA Chairman [...] A rendering of one of the entrances to be built as part of Moynihan Station's first phase. To much fanfare, USDOT announced the winners of the stimulus’ TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants yesterday, with two coming to our region. New York City’s Moynihan Station project to convert the Farley Post Office to a train [...] 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 [...] New Yorkers approve of the new Broadway, and the plazas have improved both safety and travel speeds. Mayor Bloomberg and NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced this morning that the makeover of Broadway, with pedestrian plazas replacing traffic lanes for seven blocks in Midtown, will become permanent. Backing up the decision is data showing that the [...] |
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