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Winners Senator Lobiondo supported an amendment to the House transportation bill that would have restored funding for bicycle and pedestrian programs | Photo: markn3tel James Vacca—the chair of the City Council Transportation Committee called traffic safety “a serious civil rights issue” after Councilwoman Gale Brewer introduced legislation that would help blind pedestrians navigate [...] Your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and development. Winners Metro-North's New Haven Line posted record ridership | photo: Wikimedia Commons [...] Your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and smart growth. This week’s winners: Governor Cuomo Hastings-on-Hudson—the Westchester village’s Board of Trustees passed a resolution urging Governor Cuomo to include mass transit in the Tappan Zee replacement plan. Hastings-on-Hudson’s resolution affirms what TSTC [...]  ConnDOT Commissioner Jim Redeker In 2007, after a troubled widening of I-84, a reform commission reported that the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) “badly needs fundamental change.” TSTC analyses indicate that ConnDOT has been slowly improving since then, and we sat down with Commissioner Jim Redeker, who has headed the agency since last March, to talk about his work. He will be speaking at tomorrow’s transportation financing forum in Hartford. TSTC: How did your work at NJ Transit prepare you for the commissioner job? Commissioner Jim Redeker: I think that Connecticut is much like New Jersey was 30 years ago: there’s not a lot of transportation-oriented development happening, there’s still opportunity for new investment in transit and opportunity to improve branch lines. And I really came to try to make a difference there. And now for the much-awaited second iteration of TSTC’s ‘Winners and Losers’ column, your weekly guide to heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation. This week’s winners: Michael Bloomberg: Winner Mayor Bloomberg—the Mayor’s State of the City speech showed his laudable urban planning ethos. He pledged to double the number of 20 [...] Welcome to the inaugural “Winners and Losers,” your guide to the week’s heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and smart growth. This week’s winners (who did things we like): Senator Chuck Schumer— New York’s stalwart Senator is leading the fight to restore the federal transit tax benefit, which lapsed at the end of [...] Tom Vanderbilt’s How We Drive blog recently posted some eye-opening photos of street makeovers in the English town of Ashford. Here’s the “before” image for one street: And here’s the “after”: In some areas the redesign incorporates “shared street” concepts, eliminating traffic lights and forcing all road users to keep an eye [...] Clockwise from top left: TSTC's Kyle Wiswall, The Point's Adam Liebowitz, Julien Terrell of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, SBRWA's Melanie Bin Jung, Nos Quedamos's Anna Vincente, and Joan Byron of the Pratt Center for Community Development. Members of the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance took to the Bronx’s Sheridan Expressway during [...] The initial set of MTA hearings on the agency’s “doomsday” plan to raise fares and cut service ended last week (there is one more hearing, scheduled for March 2 in Orange County), but advocates from the Empire State Transportation Alliance and the Campaign for New York’s Future haven’t let up. On Tuesday, ESTA [...] 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 [...] |
 
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