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Nearly Two-Thirds of NY Statewide Capital Plan to Be Directed Towards Transportation Infrastructure 12 Jul 2013 | 11:58 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 State of New York Statewide Capital Plan | Image: New York Works Task Force The transportation sector is far and awa...
Desperate for Cash, Yankee Stadium Parking Operator Issues RFP to Develop Lots 12 Jul 2013 | 09:58 pm
With one in ten fans arriving at Yankees games via Metro-North, it’s no surprise that the stadium’s oversized parking system is struggling. | Photo: MTA The company that operates the parking lots and...
Realtors Already Touting Citi Bike as an Amenity 12 Jul 2013 | 01:48 am
It was only a matter of time before realtors began advertising Citi Bike as an amenity. Hard to believe it was just over two months ago when residents of 99 Bank Street in Manhattan’s West Village su...
Wednesday Winners (& Losers) 11 Jul 2013 | 12:30 am
The City of Norwalk recently hired a consultant to implement street improvement recommendations from TOD and bicycle/pedestrian plans. | Photo: connectnorwalk.com A weekly roundup of good deeds, miss...
New Tri-State Report Finds Region’s Older Pedestrians at Risk 10 Jul 2013 | 10:35 pm
Pedestrians 60 years and older in the tri-state region are disproportionately at risk of being killed in collisions with vehicles while walking, according to TSTC’s annual “Older Pedestrians at Risk A...
Tri-State Area Commuters Shifting to Transit, With Some Exceptions 10 Jul 2013 | 12:45 am
Between 2000 and 2006-2010*, several tri-state counties saw some of the largest mode share increases in public transportation, biking or walking commutes in the nation according to new data from the C...
Tolls No Magic Bullet for Connecticut’s Route 11 9 Jul 2013 | 06:44 pm
The proposal to extend Route 11 has always been considered bad transportation policy which would lead to environmental degradation, further suburban sprawl and increased congestion. But a new study fr...
Support from Elected Officials Key to Dublin’s Bike Renaissance 9 Jul 2013 | 12:22 am
Dublinbikes | Photo: Wikimediacommons Bicycling is booming in Dublin, Ireland. According to the country’s census, the number of Dubliners biking to work has increased from four percent in 2006 to fiv...
Wednesday Winners (& Losers) 3 Jul 2013 | 11:02 pm
New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera | Photo: nysenate.gov A weekly roundup of good deeds, missteps, heroic feats and epic failures in tri-state transportation news. Winners Bx41 Riders and State ...
Blast from the Past: Four Decades of Studying Tolls on East and Harlem River Bridges 2 Jul 2013 | 09:36 pm
Development of Toll Collection System for the City-Owned Bridges Leading into Manhattan (City of New York Transportation Administration, 1972) Engineering, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Reevaluati...
