Despite a new Far West Side development deal, prospects for saving the MTA’s current capital plan still seem as barren as the Hudson Yards (Image
USA Today recently highlighted another victory in the burgeoning national movement to tear down or relocate urban highways and create vibrant neighborhoods in their place:
400,000 fewer cars and trucks traveled the NJ Turnpike in the first three months of 2008 than over the same period last year, according to
The Connecticut General Assembly’s “short session” ended at midnight this past Wednesday. In light of recent projections that the national economic recession will impact Connecticut
The “gas tax holiday” is such a bad idea that we didn’t even want to honor it with a comment – but now that the
The Port Authority has selected two consultants to study the feasibility of all electronic tolling (or AET, as it’s termed in the toll road world)
It looks like Long Island Bus, long the unwanted stepchild of government, has finally found a home in the MTA family. Cost savings and increased
Newark officials have issued a Request for Expressions of Interest in the Broad Street Station area. Newark Mayor Cory Booker has identified the revitalization of
A thorough review of New Jersey’s draft 2009 capital program offers some troubling insight into the Garden State’s future transportation priorities. In the short term,
House Bill 5734, An Act Concerning New and Expanded Bus Transportation Services Throughout Connecticut, passed the Connecticut House yesterday, approving $5 million in capital spending
On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Brooklyn to call on Governor Paterson to send the Atlantic Yards mega-project back to the drawing board. The
This afternoon Governor Paterson recommended Chris Ward, currently managing director of the General Contractors Association, as the Port Authority’s next executive director. A former Commissioner
