The grim tone of today’s MTA Board meeting was set with opening remarks by Board Chairman Dale Hemmerdinger who said solving the transit system’s financial
The 24 subway lines that traverse NYC are often personified as “veins” and “arteries,” so it is apt that Environmental Defense Fund, in a recent
The unnecessary widening of the Garden State Parkway between exits 67 and 80 moved one step closer to reality last Friday when the Pinelands Commission
This morning the New York Daily News reported on the doomsday budget that the MTA will unveil at its next board meeting on Thursday. It’s
One reason smart growth is called “smart” is because it creates a lively street experience and reduces automobile use by allowing people to walk, cycle,
New York’s State Commission on State Asset Maximization, a panel charged with studying whether leases of state assets or other “public-private partnerships” (PPPs) should be
Slower than a walking elephant! More powerful (but slower) than a running chicken! Taking on tens of passengers at a single stop! It’s a taxi!
A new report from New Jersey Future — titled Getting to Work: Reconnecting Jobs With Transit — is a convincing demonstration of how changes in
The Staten Island Railroad freight line, which is NYC’s only connection to the national freight rail network and which reopened in 2007 after lying dormant
As predicted, MTA officials had nothing but bad news at this morning’s special finance committee meeting. Agency officials said the MTA’s deficit had grown by
