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Showing posts with label Port Authority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Port Authority. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Our third world airport

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I remember when Joe Biden remarked that LaGuardia Airport felt like the Third World to him. I remember thinking, "What the fuck is thi...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The transportation hypocrisy of civil libertarians

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It was in the news yesterday that the Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak employee over $800,000 over twenty years for confident...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Along the Chemical Coast to Staten Island

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People seem to be captivated by the unused stretch of the Staten Island Railroad along the North Shore of the island. It makes sense to do ...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Getting into Manhattan

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I've got a whole bunch of ideas for subway and bus expansions in the boroughs, commuter rail and bus expansions in the suburbs, and even...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Rebuilding better than before

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Since they began to realize how much the subway system had been damaged by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy, leaders have been making st...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

The Port Authority rooftop should be for buses

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As I've written before, there are a lot of buses and trains bringing commuters to Manhattan every morning and taking them home at night....
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

What does mode shift look like?

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Last week I mentioned estimates that 86% of travel in the Northeast Corridor is by heavily polluting modes (5% by plane, 81% by private car...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Could the MTA ever run the Koreana van?

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Last night I wrote about a new van service running from Flushing, Queens to Fort Lee and Palisades Park, New Jersey. The service is privat...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

The real danger from the Tappan Zee Bridge

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Last month, Planet Money did a great report on the Tappan Zee Bridge. (For the short attention span crowd, here's the five-minute vers...
Monday, August 8, 2011

The Port Authority's toll hike is blatantly unfair

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The big news the past few days has been the Port Authority's fare and toll hike plan. Many people are upset about it, but for me the PA...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Bus capacity background, again

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In my last post , I discussed the brewing storm over bus capacity in Manhattan. It wasn't the first time: in 2008 I wrote that the Linc...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Manhattan bus capacity, again

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You might not realize it, but we're in the midst of a large expansion of transit capacity. That expansion is in jeopardy, though, prima...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

The Helix and the XBL

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My post last Wednesday on Chris Christie's plans to use the Port Authority's $3 billion ARC tunnel contribution on a bus garage, re...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Sucked down the helix

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Photo: Camron & Richard The sad fate of the money that was to be dedicated to the ARC tunnel is a clear illustration of how easy it is ...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

A time for not borrowing

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Now I want to get back to the discussion of borrowing that I started a month ago. Borrowing is often a good idea if you can be reasonably...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Public and private on the Goethals Bridge

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Image: Port Authority As I wrote before , our government plans to spend over $2.4 billion in road projects over the next several years: $500...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Killing the cash cow

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Last week WNYC's Brian Lehrer had a segment on tolls and transportation that made me squirm a little. There were several bizarre moment...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

The man behind the Simpson Curtain

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Last week I posted about arguments for free public transit, some of which refer to the "Simpson-Curtain rule." "Politicall...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

More on the profitable Lincoln Tunnel buses

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Astute readers will have noticed that I'm interested in free transit, but I'm also interested in profitable transit. Mainly I'm ...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

More craziness, this time in Pittsburgh

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I've only been to Pittsburgh, but I had a really good time. It definitely fulfills the Tourism Department's slogan, "Pittsburg...
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