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TN Moving Stories: Boxer rends garments over House rules: Scott casts doubt...
A downtown Manhattan parking meter--whose rates ARE rising (Kate Hinds)New Florida Governor Rick Scott's Administration releases a report prepared by a Libertarian group that says Florida's High Speed...
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TN Moving Stories: TXDOT Head Resigns, Atlanta Eyes Unified System, and...
Texas Department of Transportation executive director Amadeo Saenz has resigned, just weeks after a hand-picked panel of advisors urged his bosses to make leadership changes at the highest levels....
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TN MOVING STORIES: NYC Cabbies Protest Outer-Borough Livery Cab Proposal --...
Artist rendering of the Columbia Pike Transit Initiative (photo courtesy of WMATA)Opinions are mixed over Arlington's Columbia Pike, a planned streetcar corridor. (WAMU)Mayor Bloomberg's outer borough...
View ArticleLaHood: Gateway Tunnel "Absolutely Critical" To NY/NJ Region
DOT head Ray LaHood threw in a plug for a trans-Hudson rail crossing known as the Gateway Tunnel.Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) -- a longtime booster of a new trans-Hudson rail crossing between New...
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ARC Tunnel Report: Cost Wouldn't Exceeded $10 Billion -- And NJ Didn't Have...
(UPDATED WITH MORE INFORMATION) A federal government's report is raising questions about why New Jersey Governor Chris Christie scrapped the ARC tunnel.New Jersey Governor Chris Christie canceled the...
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Lautenberg, Christie Appointee Feud Over Toll Hike, ARC Tunnel
The Port Authority's Bill Baroni, testifying at a Senate hearingListen to a conversation about the hearings -- and hear some audio from them - below.UPDATED A Senate hearing ostensibly on the fairness...
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Trans-Hudson Tunnel Awarded Another $20 Million -- If Congress Okays It
(photo courtesy of Senator Lautenberg)A new trans-Hudson tunnel got a $20 million vote of confidence Thursday -- but it remains to be seen whether it will win approval in political environment riven by...
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Port Authority: We've Reformed. Critics: Really?
(New York, NY -- WNYC) Two consulting firms hired to conduct an independent review of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have concluded that the bi-state agency has experienced major...
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NJ Gov Christie: Workers Shouldn't Ride Free on NJ Transit
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (Governor's Office/Tim Larsen)New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was asked Tuesday about his support of a plan to eliminate the free ride benefit for NJ Transit...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Hurricane Damage Devastates NJ Transit
The totality of the damage done to New Jersey Transit by Hurricane Sandy can't be fully ascertained at this point, but the list on the agency's website is daunting.Rail lines have suffered...
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Christie on NJ Transit Storm Decisions: "Not A Hanging Offense"
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (Governor's Office/Tim Larsen)NJ Governor Christie is offering a full-throated defense of NJ Transit chief James Weinstein's decision to store rail trains in yards...
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NJ Gov Christie: "Chewed Away" Shore Road Will Be Rebuilt
A coastal Jersey roadway ravaged by Sandy will take two years and over $215 million to repair.Aerial photographs of the Mantoloking Bridge and Route 35, before and after Sandy (image by NASA Goddard...
View ArticleChristie Gets to Whiz Thru the Lincoln Tunnel. And He Wants You to Know It.
Governor Christie gets to speed through traffic, and he wants you to know. Earlier this week, Christie's press office sent out a clip of the Governor, joking with second graders. Kind of the warm and...
View Article'Every Transit Rider In America Owes a Huge Debt to Senator Frank Lautenberg'
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg's final tweet was about a proposed train tunnel under the Hudson River. It was a fitting coda to a career that drove transportation policy — transforming everything from...
View ArticleChristie Blasts Bipartisan Beltway Evasion on Nation's Fiscal Fix
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie blasted both President Barack Obama and incoming Republican House members for what he said was failing to lead the country courageously when its fiscal future remains...
View ArticleChristie Asks Ex-Sheriff Spicuzzo to Resign From Board
In the aftermath of his arrest on corruption, former Middlesex County Sheriff Joseph Spicuzzo was asked by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to resign from the board of the state's Sports and...
View ArticleNew Jersey's New Political Party: Christiecrats
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has spent the week sparring with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and scooping up Democratic endorsements from a growing group of so-called Christiecrats. Is it 2016...
View ArticleA Wealth of Difference in Fed Funding for NY, NJ on Obamacare
New Jersey will be getting just a fraction of the federal dollars New York is receiving for a key component of Obamacare—cadres of specially trained workers who will help consumers sign up for...
View ArticleBuono to Christie on NJ Transit: "Man Up"
NJ Governor Christie's Democratic opponent says he needs to "man up" and take responsibility for a host of issues -- including getting to the bottom of what happened to New Jersey Transit's trains...
View ArticleSome Progress in NY Health Exchange, But Slow Going in NJ
The rollout of the health insurance exchanges at the heart of the Affordable Care Act is starting to gain momentum in New York, but progress continues to be slow in New Jersey.“We’re pretty excited,”...
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