Who would pay for a railroad that crossed the Hudson?
A regional rail plan reached the state legislatures. Why did the new transit district never exist?
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THE HISTORY OF DECISIONS NEW YORK · NEW JERSEY · CONNECTICUT
Follow the decisions that shaped a divided transportation region.
Regional transportation institutions took shape through agreements and disagreements over money, jurisdiction, representation and operating control. This chronology follows those decisions across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with links to the reporting and records behind them.
Begin with a historical conflict below, or use the complete timeline to trace events by date. The companion newspaper archive preserves the reports themselves. Event dates describe when something happened; publication dates describe when its sources appeared.
THREE PATHS INTO THE RECORD
Start with a consequential question.
Read the history, follow dated turning points, then examine the original evidence.
How did a regional planning commission lose its region?
Why could eleven affirmative votes fail to approve a regional plan—and how did the commission disappear?
Explore the caseWhat did a through train at Penn Station actually prove?
What did the football train demonstrate about coordinating railroads—and what remained untested?
Explore the caseArticles and other sources, arranged by publication date. Undated items appear separately.
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1952
August 2, 1952
Transit Commission Named By Driscoll
TRENTON, Aug. 1—The membership of the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission was appointed today by Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll before his departure on a Maine vacation. State Senator David Van Alstyne, Republican of Eng…
1953
August 12, 1953
State Transit Unit Accused Of Inertia
The Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission was sharply criticized yesterday by City Planning Commissioner Goodhue Livingston Jr. for "dragging its feet." Mr. Livingston indicated that the transit agency, set up by th…
August 12, 1953
December 1, 1953
Regional Planning
The hearings held before the New York Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission, with a twin commission from New Jersey sitting in, renewed interest in the desirability of seeing the region's mass transportation needs w…
1954
March 28, 1954
October 19, 1954
December 22, 1954
1955
January 16, 1955
February 21, 1955
Transit: There Is A History
Editor, Bergen Evening Record. Dear Sir: In your section entitled “Voice of the People” of the Saturday edition, February 12, there was a very interesting letter by a Mr. Walter Zullig Jr. of Maywood. In my opinion,…
August 2, 1955
Studying Rapid Transit
Governor Meyner's announcement that he will approve a $150,000 appropriation for the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission apparently clears the way at last for the completion of a well-financed study of New York-Ne…
August 4, 1955
August 15, 1955
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August 19, 1955
August 25, 1955
Monmouth County Planning Board
The Monmouth County Planning Board has announced that it has adopted a resolution on the recommendation of their railroad transportation advisory committee, headed by Irving Feist of Shrewsbury, urging the newly-cre…
November 2, 1955
1956
March 3, 1956
April 16, 1956
July 9, 1956
October 10, 1956
Narrowing Down The Transit Question
Neither the proposal for a regional transportation authority nor the proposal for community-supported rapid transit is new. Indeed, it seems almost a foregone conclusion that the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commissio…
October 10, 1956
Rapid Transit Costs Cut, Real Estate Board Told
Jersey City, Oct. 10 – Towns and cities of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area will have to pay part of the bill for a new rapid-transit system, but they may find that the bill will be far less than they expec…
1957
May 23, 1957
June 4, 1957
Rapid Transit Loop Expensive But Officials Say It’s Needed
Teaneck - It looks expensive, but we really need it. This was just about the sentiment of 100 County leaders and other interested persons as they listened intently at the Town House to an outline of the proposed rap…
June 28, 1957
August 20, 1957
September 4, 1957
Q. And A. On Transit, The Orphan Of Growth
The man in the photograph looks impatient. Why shouldn’t he? People in Northeast New Jersey have been waiting for rapid transit – speedy mass trail transportation in modern coaches from community to community and di…
September 4, 1957
Rapid Transit: Groups Didn’t Overlook This
Rapid Transit: Groups Didn’t Overlook This The Public Just Forgot In Excitement Over New Highways The Record September 4, 1957 Thousands Spent Rapid transit has been called the forgotten plan of the New York City ar…
September 5, 1957
Geography Also Stands In Transit Riders’ Way
To Jersey commuters who must beg entry every day, Manhattan may often seem to be a citadel with a moat and too few drawbridges. The Dead End True, the Hudson River is spanned at the north end of New York by the Geor…
September 5, 1957
Funds Limit Port Authority Operation
Many a commuter leader, watching rail service deteriorate from year to year, has sometimes bitterly asked: “Why can’t the Port of New York Authority take over and give us a workable rapid-transit system? The Port Au…
September 5, 1957
Rapid Transit Loop Opposed By Merchants
Jersey City, NJ – The Jersey City Merchants Council today claimed that the Page plan for a rapid transit loop into New York is a threat to the entire business community of Jersey City. A Council transit study commit…
September 16, 1957
September 16, 1957
September 19, 1957
September 19, 1957
September 23, 1957
Rapid Transit Plan Assailed
HARRIMAN (AP) — Robert Moses has attacked a proposal for a new bi-state agency to set up a unified rapid transit system between New York City and New Jersey. Moses told the regional conference on metropolitan areas…
October 11, 1957
Symposium To Discuss Transit Plan
A symposium on the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission’s report on the proposed $400,000,000 transit loop will be held at noon Oct. 29 in the grand ballroom of the Sheraton-Astor Hotel, New York. It will be under…
October 30, 1957
Jones Labels Rapid Transit Priority Work
Hackensack – State Senator Walter H. Jones said today a positive and workable program for providing northern New Jersey with a rapid-transit system must be a priority project of the 1958 Legislative session. The Rep…
December 19, 1957
December 23, 1957
Proposed Subway To Jersey Scored
The reaction to a new proposal for a Manhattan-New Jersey subway loop was almost unanimously unfavorable yesterday. The $500,000,000 plan is scheduled to be recommended this week by the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Co…
1958
January 11, 1958
January 29, 1958
The Longest Journey Begins With A Step
Amid the Monday hullabaloo of highly localized political immediacies Senator Jones (R., Bergen) introduced legislation to create a metropolitan transit district. A similar but not identical bill was introduced by ni…
January 31, 1958
February 11, 1958
Rapid Transit Move Stalled by Democrats
Trenton, Feb. 11—Angry Democrats yesterday stalled action for at least a week on a G. O. P. bill which would create a bi-State rapid-transit agency for the North Jersey-Manhattan area. Among other things, the Democr…
March 4, 1958
March 19, 1958
April 24, 1958
Bi-State Transit Bill Is Signed Despite Mayor's Plea for Study
ALBANY, April 24—Legislation authorizing New York State to participate in the proposed bi-state Metropolitan Transit District was approved today by Governor Harriman. He signed the Republican-sponsored measure despi…
April 24, 1958
Jersey Approval Likely
Special to The New York Times TRENTON, April 24—The general expectation here is that the State Senate will give its approval to the transit district at the present session of the Legislature, which will continue unt…
June 6, 1958
June 6, 1958
June 15, 1958
Jersey Blocking Transit District
TRENTON, June 14–The proposed New York-New Jersey Transit District will not become a reality, at least until 1959, it became evident here tonight. Leaders of the State Legislature seem determined to block approval o…
June 20, 1958
Metropolitan Transport
Position Regional Council Took on Recommended Legislation Outlined The writer of the following letter is Deputy City Administrator, City of New York, and executive secretary, Metropolitan Regional Council. The New Y…
September 10, 1958
September 19, 1958
October 19, 1958
Transit Plan Block Laid To Authority
The Port of New York Authority is the major blockade in the path of the type of rapid transit system that is of vital importance to the metropolitan area and New York City itself. This point was underscored again an…
October 24, 1958
Misleading Information Against Transit Bill
IT should not be necessary to have to say this again, but in a letter to Governor Meyner and the Legislature released today the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission carefully emphasizes that: "The transit district…
October 24, 1958
October 24, 1958
October 27, 1958
October 30, 1958
Fares, Finances and Frustration in New York City Transit
* The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the position of the New York City Administration. To the question: "why live in the City?" Robert M. Haig, former President of the National Tax Associ…
November 7, 1958
Pesin Warns Transit District Means ‘Loop’ About Hudson’s Neck
When the New Jersey State Legislature reconvenes on Monday, the General Assembly will have before it a bill by Sen. Walter Jones (GOP-Bergen)--backed by the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission and passed by the Se…
November 12, 1958
New Jersey’s Careful Plans To Stop Trying
Senator Jones's (R., Bergen) comment that the public hearing is a good weapon with which to kill legislation is acceptable within his specifically intended context. He refers to the hearing scheduled in Assembly com…
November 18, 1958
Rockefeller Bids For 3-State Talk
He Will Seek Early Parlay With Meyner And Ribicoff CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 17–Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor-elect of New York, said today that he would seek an early meeting with Gov, Robert B. Meyner of New Jers…
November 18, 1958
Changes Suggested In Transit Program
Trenton – Governor Robert B. Meyer talked of possible changes in a transit-district bill yesterday, while New York Governor-elect Nelson A. Rockefeller told newsmen in Venezuela he will seek talks with Meyer on comm…
November 18, 1958
Rapid Transit Bill Passage Is Urged
Paramus – North Jersey transportation problems won’t be solved with vague talk about a giant new authority or by hopes that the Port of New York Authority will take on the job, said a Metropolitan Rapid Transit Comm…
November 19, 1958
Jersey Move Urged In Bi-State Transit
PARAMUS, N. J., Nov. 18–Frank H. Simon, executive director of the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission, asserted today that the Port of New York Authority would not undertake the development of interstate rapid tra…
November 25, 1958
Ask Assembly To Act On Transit Problems
Trenton – New York and New Jersey cochairman of the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission stood side by side in the State Assembly Chamber yesterday and asked for action instead of everlasting talk on the Metropolit…
November 25, 1958
Rapid-Transit Query Posed
Trenton – Can the Port of New York Authority, the operator of tunnels, bridges, airports, and other high-priced facilities be made to plan and operate a metropolitan rapid-transit system, too? In a battle of reports…
December 3, 1958
Remedy For Confusion: Regional Groups Defined
December 3, 1958 Any one who tries to understand metro problems in the New York City area runs into an alphabet soup of initials and nicknames given to agencies or groups working toward goals that sometimes appear t…
December 3, 1958
Government For A Metropolis: Bergen Ignores The Debating
Mayors and taxpayers in Bergen say they have their own troubles. Metro? That’s somebody else’s headache. Staggering Statistics Metro is a nickname for metropolitan government – not quite State level, but something m…
December 8, 1958
Bi-State Rail Bill Killed In Jersey
Proposal for Transit Area Will Be Offered Again TRENTON, N.J. — Legislation to establish a New York-New Jersey transit district died tonight in an Assembly committee after being completely rewritten. Thus it finally…
December 12, 1958
Council To Study Transit
Jersey City Mayor Witkowski has called the traffic and transportation committee of the Metropolitan Regional Council into session to consider new commuter plans in the wake of Assembly failure to approve a metropoli…
1959
January 9, 1959
Official Agency To Plan Growth Of Region Urged
Report Asks Legal Status For Metropolitan Council As Goverment Adviser A proposal that the Metropolitan Regional Council receive “full and effective” legal status was put before the Regional Plan Association yesterd…
January 9, 1959
$500,000,000 Rail Loop Linking Jersey-Manhattan Now Urged
NEW YORK CITY — The Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission (MRTC) Monday recommended to the governors of New York and New Jersey the construction of a 500-million-dollar rail loop system to speed commuter traffic and…
January 9, 1959
Text of Report Urging Full Legal Status for the Metropolitan Regional Council
Following is the text of a report on the future of the Metropolitan Regional Council, made public yesterday by the Special Committee on Metropolitan Governmental Affairs of the Regional Plan Association: Findings an…
January 19, 1959
Crisis in New Jersey: Improving Commuter Service A Must, But No One Wants Job
By Frederic Cassin (First of a series on the rail commuter crisis) Preserving and improving commuter transit service in New Jersey is one of the more pressing problems facing the state these days. Most everyone agre…
February 17, 1959
Two Transit Bills Get N.J. Approval
Trenton, Feb. 17 — State Highway Commissioner Dwight R. G. Palmer announced yesterday that he was already laying the groundwork for what he called the first step toward solution of the transit problem. He said he ha…
February 17, 1959
Rockefeller Sets Up Transportation Unit
Rockefeller Sets Up Transportation Unit Albany, N. Y., Feb. 17 (AP) — Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller was expected to win final approval today of his plea for an agency to battle transportation problems. The Senate a…
March 27, 1959
New Bill Needed on Transit Plan
New Bill Needed on Transit Plan New York Measure On Agency Differs From Jersey's Bergen Evening Record March 27, 1959 Trenton, Mar. 27 — The State Legislature will have to draft and adopt a new transit-district bill…
April 2, 1959
We Must Keep Riding!
Assemblyman Alfred N. Beadleston's statement before the Eatontown Rotary Club that "New Jersey must keep riding," is one which all commuters know and believe, but one of which those who operate our railroads must be…
April 7, 1959
Council Urges Meyner To Prod Port Authority
Despite protestations by the Port of New York Authority that any involvement of the Authority in the New Jersey rail transit crisis “could well lead to the destruction of the Port Authority as a useful agent,” the P…
April 7, 1959
Port Authority Balks At Providing Any Funds
Solution of this state’s railroad commuter problem of rising fares and curtailed service, was tackled on three fronts yesterday while the Port of New York Authority, involved in each action, announced it would be im…
April 14, 1959
Assembly Approves N. Y. Transit Plan
Trenton, Apr. 14 — The State Assembly voted to go along with New York lawmakers’ changes in its bi-State approach to the rail-transit crisis following a bitter 45-minute debate yesterday. NO ALTERNATIVE Opponents at…
July 7, 1959
House Approves NY-Jersey Transit Agency
Washington – An agency formed by New York and New Jersey to deal with bi-state commuting problems won unanimous House approval yesterday. The easy passage of the measure in the House indicated that the Senate will g…
July 13, 1959
The Commuter Problem: Politics Again Is Biggest Bar To Solution of Transit Crisis
By James S. Brown State rail service has withered on the vine during two generations of political chicanery and gassy oratory and once again political wrangling appears the biggest stumbling block in efforts to solv…
1960
January 28, 1960
February 7, 1960
February 20, 1960
Tri-State Transport Agency Regional Plan Group Backs
NEW YORK — The Regional Plan Association has endorsed the efforts of the Metropolitan Regional Council through its chairman, Mayor Robert F. Wagner, to establish a Tri-State Transportation Agency representing the st…
July 15, 1960
Port Authority Wants To Steer Clear Of Deficit-Ridden Railroads
The iron wheels of a dying railroad locomotive cry out, “Rapid Transit, Rapid Transit, Rapid Transit,” as the old iron horse races down hill in America’s public transportation history. NO. 1 PROBLEM Charging past th…
August 16, 1960
New R.R. Commuter Plan Offered For Area Relief
New York, Aug. 16 (AP) — A new railroad commuter plan has been offered to relieve the mounting traffic congestion besetting the New York Metropolitan Area. UNIFIED SERVICE The plan calls for a Tri-State agency to se…
September 23, 1960
LIRR Head Bids For Tri-State Transport Unit
By Francis Wood New York—Thomas M. Goodfellow, president of the Long Island Rail Road, said yesterday that creation of a tri-state transportation authority with the power and resources to plan and coordinate all com…
1961
February 20, 1961
March 7, 1961
April 1, 1961
1962
November 3, 1962
Foe Of Metro Assails Program, Suggests It Remain Voluntary
A lengthy Committee for the Preservation of Home Rule letter opposes formalizing the Metropolitan Regional Council. It argues for voluntary cooperation and warns that a new regional body could become an unaccountabl…
1963
February 28, 1963
April 7, 1963
Regional Council Surviving Attack
Leaders Expect 22-County Group to Continue By MERRILL FOLSOM The controversial Metropolitan Regional Council seems to be surviving as a second-level advisory group despite a recent groundswell of opposition. Leaders…
May 7, 1963
Dempsey Asks $1 Million Aid for Railroad
Governor Proposes New State Funds for Bankrupt Carrier LINKED TO PACT Money Would Hinge on Assembly Approval of Tri-State Commission HARTFORD, May 7 — (AP) Gov. John N. Dempsey announced today that he would submit l…
June 9, 1963
Fears Expressed on Regional Aid
By MURRAY ILLSON Fears were expressed at a Congressional hearing here yesterday over the possible encroachment of "big government" through the Metropolitan Regional Council and similar organizations. One witness, Ar…
June 12, 1963
October 16, 1963
Tri-State Area Is Willing to Pay for Planning
By RALPH SODA NEW YORK — A survey of people in the 6,900-square-mile tri-state metropolitan area shows they favor regional planning to preserve their cities, protect their pleasant suburbs and improve transportation…
1964
April 1, 1964
Tri-State Transpo Unit Fights For Standing: Has No Teeth
By BOB DUBILL TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Behind a cloud of controversy and confusion, a three-state agency created by a gentlemen’s agreement among three governors is trying to unsnarl the New York metropolitan area’s per…
April 29, 1964
May 23, 1964
June 1, 1964
July 12, 1964
Friction Keeps Transit Wheels Screeching
That promotional thing which puts this suburban area “at the edge of the crowd” – meaning the New York metropolitan region – “but not in it” is misleading in its insular smugness. The fact is that tens of thousands…
July 22, 1964
October 4, 1964
The Regional Approach
Westbury—The $3,135,000 a year fare increase requested by the Long Island Rail Road again, demonstrates that Nassau’s mass transportation system is inadequate, archaic, uncoordinated and overpriced. Despite ten year…
1965
January 17, 1965
New England Scene
By Charles J. Stokes The plight of the New Haven calls for a drastic solution. But what solution? And, quite frankly, who pays for it? Just how bad the plight is can be judged from the fact that probably no major fa…
March 15, 1965
N.J. Called Key Area In Tri-State Rail Plans
NEW YORK (AP)—The Regional Plan Association made a new plea yesterday for interstate action to avert a railroad commuter crisis. The voluntary planning group submitted a 12-point memorandum to government and railroa…
June 12, 1965
All Rockin', No Rollin' In Commuter Explosion
Commuter—one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again. Absurd perhaps, but this little ditty by Elwyn Brooks White reveals a dismal as…
July 14, 1965
States Dragged Feet On Meeting Rail Crisis
It took World War II to arouse enough worldwide cooperation to set up the United Nations. Only with the past few years, despite more than a decade of mounting congestion and forewarnings of a general collapse of com…
December 27, 1965
Bill Is Set on Transit Agencies For 3 States; Merger Sought
New York—State Sen. Thomas J. Mackell (D-Queens) said yesterday he will prefile a bill in the Legislature that would consolidate the functions of eight state and interstate transportation agencies. Mackell, chairman…
1966
January 20, 1966
U.S. Tie to Transportation Unit Urged
Washington—Nassau County Executive Nickerson urged Vice President Humphrey yesterday to give his support to a tri-state transportation authority that would handle the metropolitan area’s transportation systems. Nick…
May 20, 1966
A Bold Transit Remedy
It is an imaginative, daring plan distilled from a four-year continuing study of the transit problems of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, an urbanized swath of increasing congestion. The program will test the w…
May 21, 1966
August 22, 1966
New 'Master Plan'? Rail Transit Studies: They Come and Go
TRENTON—Hudson County and other North Jersey commuters needn't hold their collective breath while awaiting the results of new mass rail transit studies urged upon the Port of New York Authority by Gov. Hughes. For a…
December 12, 1966
1967
January 4, 1967
Let LIRR Agency Run Subways, Triborough Agency, Rocky Asks
Albany—Gov. Rockefeller proposed today that the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority, which runs the Long Island Rail Road, be expanded into a superagency that also would run the New York City subways, som…
1971
July 9, 1971
1972
April 16, 1972
Transit Series: Port Authority Function
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus. – Shakespeare In New York State the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is engaged in a $1 billion effort to revive and modernize all available commuter…
April 23, 1972
Transit Series: State Lags On Priorities
Transit Series: State Lags On Priorities The Sunday News April 23, 1972 "It is impossible in this day and age to build enough highways to carry all of New Jersey's Metropolitan traffic load." said a master plan publ…
April 30, 1972
Integrated Commuter Rail System Plotted
For more than 30 years experts recognized the need to modernize and reorganize last century's commuter and rapid transit railroads in the New York City metropolitan region but a realistic, foresighted plan was never…
April 30, 1972
Aux Armes Citoyens
The sad situation of mass rail transit in our state needs the immediate, importunate, insistent and incessant help of all New Jersey citizens. We must pound and pound away until our goal is achieved. Our goal? Safe,…
1974
March 22, 1974
June 9, 1974
‘Revolutionary’ Plan to Debut Tuesday: Institute Puts P.A. at Tri-State Transit Helm
The Port Authority would become the chief mass transit operating agency in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region under a proposal drafted by the Institute for Public Transportation. A “revolutionar…
June 16, 1974
A Blueprint for Unified Mass Transit
The Institute for Public Transportation has conceived a bold and imaginative plan to create the largest and most efficient mass transit system in the United States. The proposed network of rails, buses and subways w…
June 20, 1974
Port Authority is Best Agency for Mass Transit
A new and exciting era of mass transit for the New York metropolitan area has been made possible by legislative action broadening the public transportation role of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Legi…
1975
October 6, 1975
1976
February 26, 1976
April 29, 1976
May 19, 1976
July 16, 1976
July 16, 1976
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September 21, 1976
November 16, 1976
1977
March 2, 1977
August 18, 1977
December 20, 1977
1978
January 13, 1978
1979
March 27, 1979
How Will We Straighten Out The Tri-State Transport Mess?
By MICHAEL J. McMANUS This column is being published in cooperation with the League of Women Voters' "Tri-State Town Meeting" project. The public policy choices summarized below will be debated in a broadcast at 10…
April 27, 1979
April 29, 1979
Municipal TV Hookup Falters as 2 Agencies Maneuver
By Edward Hudson WHITE PLAINS FIVE years ago a closed‐circuit television network that was designed to improve the exchange of information among officials of local government agencies scattered across the New York‐Ne…
June 1, 1979
June 21, 1979
Who Should Be Making Decisions on Metropolitan Issues?
By MICHAEL J. McMANUS This is the last of a series of columns to be published as part of a “Tri-State Town Meeting” sponsored by the League of Women Voters. The issues in this column will be debated at 10 p.m. tonig…
July 21, 1979
Regional Local Government Has Been Silenced
By Evan Liblet To the Editor: The Metropolitan Regional Council, the region's one and only association of local governments, became a thing of the past early this week when it was forced to discontinue operation due…
August 25, 1979
New ‘Metro’ Lines Prompt Mixed Reaction in Jersey
By PAUL OVERBERG A staff report issued last week by a group studying the future of the powerful Tri-State Regional Planning Commission recommended that the agency drop half of its 100-municipality jurisdiction, incl…
September 12, 1979
1981
February 22, 1981
Tri-State Council is Formed
NEW YORK - Fifteen leading business officials from the states of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, including the three states' economic development commissioners, have formed a Tri-State Council to seek common a…
March 22, 1981
Tri-State: 'New Directions'
THE Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, a planning organization for New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, drew renewed attention recently after a blue-ribbon task force, appointed by the Governors of the three s…
May 17, 1981
Move To Quit Tri-State Group Could Be Costly
HARTFORD CONNECTICUT'S move to withdraw from the Tristate Regional Planning Commission could end up costing the state more money than it would save. But aside from the symbolic effects of Connecticut severing its pl…
December 16, 1981
December 17, 1981
Task Force Suggests Scrapping Tri-State Regional Plan Commission
The governors’ task force recommends abolishing Tri-State, auditing and settling its accounts, and designing a new regional planning and policy-analysis framework. The article details its criticisms of accountabilit…
December 29, 1981
1982
February 3, 1982
February 10, 1982
September 5, 1982
Tri-State’s Demise Leaves Gap In Planning
The telephone number on the 82d floor of One World Trade Center is the same, but these days the receptionist answers it with a new name -''Council.'' The Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, which for more than 2…
1985
December 20, 1985
Coming by Trolley: A Waterfront Transit Revolution
EARLY IN the century, Henry Ford ignited a revolution by lowering auto prices to within reach of middle-class families. That revolution led to another when those families and their cars moved to the suburbs. That, i…
1994
November 2, 1994
TSTC Writes to NYS DOT on Failure of Cross-Westchester Collaboration
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is preparing a letter to NY State Transportation Commissioner John Egan to express its disappointment and disturbance over a recent letter Egan wrote to the Environmental Defens…
November 2, 1994
Letter Calls to Fight the National "Anti-Highway Movement"
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign has received a document which originated in the Nebraska State Highway Commission which labels itself "A call to action to all State Transportation Commissioners or Board member…
November 9, 1994
EIS Comments Topic of PA Airport Rail Letter to TSTC
Port Authority Airport Access Director Edward O'Sullivan wrote to the Tri-State Transportation Campaign in response to the October 19 issue of this bulletin, clarifying that it was the Federal Aviation Administratio…
December 7, 1994
NYMTC Committee Considers Candidates for Downstate MIS
On December 1, 1994, the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council's (NYMTC) Program, Finance and Administration Committee met and adopted a list of candidates for downstate major investment studies. The adoption of th…
December 14, 1994
Whitman Not Ready With Transportation Trust Fund Proposal
Governor Christine Whitman has still not presented her proposal for renewal of New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund to legislative leaders or the public. Last week, the Alliance for Transportation Reform, a 21-mem…
December 22, 1994
What Implications for ISTEA in Clinton US DOT Restructuring Plan?
At a December 19 press conference, the Clinton Administration announced plans to restructure the U.S. Department of Transportation and cut federal transportation spending. An alert issued to transportation advocates…
December 22, 1994
Pataki: Reconsider I-287 HOV, 9A Project
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign wrote on December 14 to NY Governor-elect Pataki, urging him to reconsider the NY State Department of Transportation's plan to add high-occupancy vehicle lanes to the Cross-West…
2010
October 24, 2010
2015
June 1, 2015
There is no Moses on the road to Secaucus
By ALFRED P. DOBLIN TWO WEEKS ago, I attended one of NJ Transit’s public forums on its proposed rate hike. The average increase is expected to be 9 percent. The forum I attended was inside the so-called Secaucus Tra…
2016
September 6, 2016
Is Tri-State Transportation Too Big to Plan?
By Stephen Miller A new federal rule could unify the New York region’s jumble of official transportation plans into a single vision for the entire metropolitan area. But some planning advocates worry the Obama admin…
October 15, 2016
New Hope for New Rail Tunnels
Funding could be in place in two years for project under Hudson, official says. Federal financing could be in place in two years to build two new rail tunnels under the Hudson River that would augment the crumbling…
2022
October 24, 2022
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