New York’s legislative session shows little sign of cooling down, with four potentially impactful bills introduced into the State Assembly and Senate Transportation Committees last month. The bills would mandate complete streets, create a regional bus authority, introduce new penalties for careless driving, and require the MTA and Thruway Authority to implement high-speed tolling at [...]
The NYS Thruway Authority can't operate buses and trains over a new Tappan Zee Bridge, but it can help pay for the bus lanes and tracks.
One of the unresolved questions about the Tappan Zee Bridge/I-287 corridor project is who will run the bus rapid transit and commuter rail systems planned for the corridor. Another [...]
The East Side Access and Garden State Parkway widening projects are both in search of federal dollars.
Transportation advocates are still fighting to get more transit funding into the economic stimulus bill, with anywhere from $9-12 billion likely to be included in the final package. But another important question is where that money will go [...]
Before the New York State Thruway Authority delayed its scheduled Nov. 19 board meeting, the speculation was that the authority might finally implement congestion pricing for passenger cars on the Tappan Zee Bridge.
Truck tolls on the Tappan Zee Bridge are doubled at peak hours, but passenger car tolls are currently set using a perverse [...]
