Wednesday Winners (& Losers)
A weekly roundup of good deeds, missteps, heroic feats and epic failures in tri-state transportation news. Winners Suffolk County bus riders — Suffolk County will receive $3.96 million over three years — higher than advocates anticipated — in federal funding from the New York Metropolitan Transit Council to expand Sunday bus service beginning in January 2014. New Haven Mayoral Candidates Kermit Carolina, Justin Elicker, Henry Fernandez, Toni Harp and Sundiata […]
Wyandanch Rising Transit-Oriented Redevelopment Project Breaks Ground on Long Island
After a decade of planning, a groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday for the Wyandanch Rising project, a public-private redevelopment project intended to transform one of Long Island’s most economically distressed communities into a “transit-oriented, pedestrian friendly, environmentally sustainable downtown.” Tri-State has long supported the project, and through funding from the One Region Funders’ Group, provided a $25,000 Transit Centered Development grant to […]