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Oklahoma City's Highway Teardown
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: Oklahoma has a radical...
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Congestion Pricing's World Tour
It is old news that congestion pricing was killed by the NYS Legislature this past April, but the idea that didn’t flourish here is quickly spreading to many other countries. As MTR has noted, the...
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Dispatch from Albany: Legislature Plays Transportation Chicken
Governor Cuomo's proposed budget would aid the MTA and help upstate transit systems As legislators work to negotiate between three separate visions for New York’s 2012-13 budget—Governor Cuomo’s, the...
View ArticleTomorrow: Using Elections to Advance Smart Transportation Policy
Transportation for America, a broad national coalition focused on improving the country’s transportation policy (Tri-State is a member), kicks off its Transportation Vote 2012 webinar series tomorrow...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Health and Human Services Announces $70m in Transformation...
With questions surrounding local control of bike-ped funding in America’s next federal transportation bill, the United States Department of Health and Human Services has stepped up and announced the...
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From the Editor
Outgoing TSTC Executive Director Kate Slevin As many Mobilizing the Region readers know, I’m leaving TSTC this month to join the NYC Department of Transportation. Starting Monday June 25th, I’ll be an...
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Energy Project in Philadelphia Offers Lessons for Regional Transit Providers
Yesterday, the nation’s sixth-largest transit agency, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) demonstrated that it is possible to reduce energy consumption, lower harmful...
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POSTPONED: BK Gateway Vision Launch this Saturday!
The BK Gateway area faces numerous land use and transportation challenges. Due to the ongoing relief efforts and resulting impacts of Hurricane Sandy, the BK Gateway Vision launch has been postponed...
View ArticleNY Building Congress Announces Voluntary Payment of Payroll Mobility Tax
All things considered, it’s been a good couple of weeks for the MTA. They’ve been called “magical.” Newspapers are lining up to support more funding for the agency. The Governor is going to Washington...
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Don’t Confuse Real News for First of April Ruse
The MTA is erecting a wall that will keep seawater away from tracks that bring A trains to the Rockaways. | Photo: Jim O’Grady/Transportation Nation We thought about crafting a fake April Fools’ Day...
View ArticleMobilizing the Region’s 10 Most Popular Stories in 2013
Keep an eye out for our upcoming recap of the good, the bad and the ugly in tri-state transportation news from 2013. Until then, here are the most popular stories on Mobilizing the Region in the last...
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Save the Date: “How to pay for: Parking & Transportation Improvements”
Photo: Newsday.com On Friday, May 16, the Long Island Section of the American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter is hosting the annual Arthur Kunz Memorial Scholarship Breakfast. This year’s...
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Nearly 1,500 Petitions Calling for Better Funding and Service Delivered to...
Suffolk County Transit riders, students and advocates held a press conference at the Patchogue Long Island Rail Road station this morning to call on Suffolk County’s state elected delegation to find...
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Wednesday Winners (& Losers)
NYPD Chief of Transportation Thomas Chan | Photo: NY Daily News A weekly roundup of good deeds, missteps, heroic feats and epic failures in the tri-state region and beyond. WINNERS President Barack...
View ArticleGood Luck Taking the NICE Bus to These Nassau County Bus Transit Committee...
On Wednesday, July 9 at 2PM and 5PM the Nassau County Bus Transit Committee will be holding two public hearings regarding fare changes on the NICE bus system. The Committee is required to hold an open...
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Stamford Becomes the Third Connecticut City to Formally Embrace Complete Streets
Stamford’s new Complete Streets ordinance should guide the City toward installing crossing islands more like the one at Washington Boulevard and North State Street (left), and less like the one on at...
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State and Local Electeds Join Transit Operators and Advocates in Urging...
New York State Assemblymember Shelley Mayer Yesterday morning in Westchester, a group of more than 30 elected officials, transit users, transit operators and transportation advocates braved the bitter...
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