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NJ Transit’s $1.79 billion FY 2010 operating budget, approved last week, avoids a fare hike and major service cuts despite a $62 million reduction in state operating aid. NJ Transit is filling the gap by slashing administrative costs, a laudable achievement, but one that may be hard to repeat in future years. MTR has written before [...] A conversion of carpool lanes to high-occupancy toll lanes could have potential for Connecticut. Today, Tri-State joined a coalition of civic, environmental, and transportation groups that called on elected officials to implement congestion pricing on Connecticut’s roads. The Connecticut Joint Committee on Transportation will hear a congestion pricing bill within the next two days. Congestion pricing [...] Governor Rell announced her budget for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 last Wednesday in Hartford. With Connecticut facing a $922 million deficit, her proposal was mainly a laundry list of spending cuts, fee increases, and agency consolidations. With the exception of a speed camera pilot program, however, Governor Rell offered little vision on how to [...] Today the House Appropriations Committee released a summary of the House version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009, the proposed federal stimulus legislation. The announcement says the legislation will be considered in the next few weeks. On the transportation front, the proposed legislation includes $30 billion for highway construction and $10 [...] New sources of revenue will be required to meet U.S. infrastructure needs. The Federal Highway Administration reported last month that 2008 revenues into the Highway Trust Fund fell $3 billion from 2007 levels. It seems that $4 per gallon gasoline earlier this year suppressed driving nationally by almost 90 billion miles in the 12 [...] New York Voices will air on Tuesday, Dec. 16th at 8:00 pm As part of its “Blueprint America” program, PBS affiliate Thirteen/WNET New York will air a “New York Voices” segment about the MTA’s financial crisis and its impact on the major proposed and existing transit capital projects slated for completion over the next decade. [...] Along with East River bridge tolls and additional payroll taxes, MTR has learned that improved bus service throughout the MTA region will be a key recommendation of the MTA Financing Commission led by Richard Ravitch. In June, Governor Paterson set up the Commission to investigate ways to fund the MTA’s operating and capital needs. With [...] Under Thompson's plan, annual registration fees for light vehicles would be lower than for heavy vehicles. Yesterday NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson announced a plan (available here) to raise over $1 billion to fund the MTA — more than enough to halt planned service cuts — by increasing vehicle registration fees in part of New York [...] A widening of Route 110 in Suffolk County has likely been delayed. According to a New York State Budget Bulletin released November 4, all agency projects “not involving Federal reimbursement of at least 75 percent or impacting public health and/or safety” will be subject to a pre-approval process for moving forward. For Long Island, this [...] Like the other MTA agencies, Long Island Bus is facing deep service cuts and steep fare increases. However, the MTA plan to balance LI Bus’s budget is unique in that it assumes other government entities will increase their funding to the agency. If this does not happen, Long Island Bus would need to double its [...] |
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