Tag: New York

May 17, 2024

Sixty new electric buses that will operate in routes in Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn were recently introduced by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The buses, purchased with nearly $70 million in formula funds from the Federal Transit Administration, feature electric traction […]

April 24, 2024

New York state plans to invest in transit, infrastructure and roadway safety as part of the fiscal year 2025 budget. “Whether you’re on the roadway or the subway, you deserve to get to your destination quickly and safely,” Gov. Kathy […]

November 30, 2023

On Wednesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her state would release $100 million to support repaving and improvements to state roadways impacted by the extreme weather. Hochul said the state would fund repaving projects in 66 locations covering nearly […]

August 31, 2023

Peak season for the Port of New York and New Jersey has arrived. Not only did the port take the top spot for containers moved in July, but it was the port’s highest monthly total since October 2022. A total […]

May 15, 2023

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad set post-pandemic ridership records on May 9. The LIRR carried approximately 221,290 riders while Metro-North carried approximately 205,069 riders. In February, LIRR ridership increased 41 percent, following the opening of Grand […]

January 30, 2023

On Wednesday, the Port Authority for New York and New Jersey announced 2022 saw the highest cargo activity on record, with a 27 percent growth over its pre-pandemic activity. In its reports for December 2022 and the full 2022 year, […]

November 17, 2022

A little over a year after the New York City Council approved a legislative package aimed at improving working conditions for app-based delivery drivers, city officials are following through on one of the legislation’s key provisions. Uber Eats (NYSE: UBER), […]

September 27, 2022

In the extraordinary period for container shipping where seemingly all old metrics have been discarded, another new astonishing statistic has emerged – the United States has just crowned the port of New York and New Jersey as the nation’s top […]

January 25, 2022

Efforts are underway in New York to enable more people to conduct road tests for commercial driver licenses to reduce a long backlog exacerbated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is slated to […]

August 25, 2021

The Federal Highway Administration on Sept. 7 is expected to initiate an Environmental Assessment associated with a proposed congestion pricing program for the city of New York. The agency issued a notice of acceptance regarding initiation of the Environmental Assessment […]

November 23, 2020

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in Washington DC has launched a probe into liner activity in the ports of New York, Los Angeles and Long Beach as shippers voice ever louder concern about the lack of available containers to shift […]

October 30, 2020

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced that construction has begun on a project to create a continuous auxiliary lane on a portion of the Staten Island Expressway. The Staten Island Expressway represents a portion of Interstate 278 that stretches […]

February 12, 2020

President Donald Trump will meet with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to discuss a potential compromise on the administration’s ban on state residents using programs that allow travelers to breeze through airport passport and customs checks. Cuomo, in a Feb. […]

February 7, 2020

The Trump administration’s move to bar New Yorkers from enrolling in DHS trusted traveler programs jolted the state and Congress, but there could be more where that came from. The agency’s acting deputy secretary threatened a similar fate for other […]

July 2, 2019

This city used to be a model for the future of biking in North America. Now it is just a deadly mess. Visiting New York City and riding a bike used to be a so exciting. It had real bike […]

May 31, 2019

As any New Yorker knows, the proper way to swipe a MetroCard to get into the subway system—the timing, the speed, the downward pressure—is tricky, but possible to master. The successful MetroCard swipe separates the tourist from the hardened commuter, […]

April 16, 2019

Every week, massive containerships arrive at New York Harbor, after passing under the raised Bayonne Bridge between Staten Island and New Jersey. Workers quickly unload thousands of blocky containers at the port and put them on big trucks, sending the […]

April 2, 2019

NEW YORKERS LOVE to tout their exceptionalism. Late Sunday evening, the state Legislature in Albany handed city residents another first-of-its-kind distinction: New York will be the first US city to impose a fee for driving in a busy part of […]

November 15, 2017

Amtrak is announcing a series of track renewal projects in New York Penn Station as part of the Infrastructure Renewal program. While the bulk of the renewal work for 2018 will occur on weekends, there will be a series of […]

June 13, 2017

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is accelerating construction on New York bridges and tunnels so the work is complete before Amtrak begins emergency repairs at Pennsylvania Station in July. The order will ensure that all major commuter crossings can be used without […]