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Rubber-modified asphalt could make roads last longer, but it’s rarely used locally

Rubber-modified asphalt, which incorporates recycled tire rubber into the binder used to hold asphalt together, has been used for decades in parts of the United States.

Connecticut · 4d

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Hudson Tunnel Project’s massive boring machines get to work

The North River Tunnel, in service since 1910 and used for intercity passenger rail service, will be rehabilitated and remain in service alongside the Hudson Tunnel Project, expected to finish by 2035, with progress swiftly underway. Initially, the North River Tunnel was built with two tunnels in mind; however, only...

New Jersey · 5d

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Saturday Proved The Deadliest Day Of The Week For Fatal Crashes In New York, With 908 Incidents Over Five Years

Fatal crashes spiked on weekends across New York State from 2020 to 2024. Saturday saw the most with 908 deadly incidents, while summer months like August recorded 564 fatal crashes, according to a new five-year study.

New York · 8d

New York Post

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MTA saw record-high ridership over Halloween, marathon weekend in NYC — but straphangers have complaints

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority saw a record-breaking surge of riders over Halloween and New York City Marathon weekend — but many fed-up straphangers complained of dangerously crowded platforms and lengthy delays. Some 3.14 million riders took the subway Sunday, marking an all-time ridership high for the first day of the week and shattering last year’s record by 11%, Governor Kathy Hochul and the MTA announced Monday. Similarly, the day before, on Halloween, straphangers smashed the previous post-pandemic Saturday record with 3.59 million riders, marking the most on a single Saturday since 2016. Roughly 3.59 million straphangers rode the subway on Halloween Saturday. Zuma / SplashNews.com Even before the Big Apple’s mammoth weekend, the subway carried a whopping 4.72 million passengers on a record-shattering Thursday, marking the highest single-day ridership since the pandemic with a 9.7% increase in ridership compared to the same day last year. “From the streets to the subways, New Yorkers were on the move this weekend in record numbers,” Hochul said in a press release. MTA bus-fare retreat could doom all NYC public transit “The subway is the lifeblood of our city and from Halloween to the marathon, the major events that make New York special simply

New York, NY · 7d

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Saturday Proved The Deadliest Day Of The Week For Fatal Crashes In New York, With 908 Incidents Over Five Years

Fatal crashes spiked on weekends across New York State from 2020 to 2024. Saturday saw the most with 908 deadly incidents, while summer months like August recorded 564 fatal crashes, according to a new five-year study.

New York · 8d

New York Post

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How the congestion-toll scam hides behind the fantasy of a carless city

Congestion pricing is a huge failure if you look at its stated goals, but a brilliant ploy to rob the public by appealing to the war on cars. Despite the mutual back-patting from Gov. Kathy Hochul and her MTA minions, traffic is no faster and the air is no cleaner since the city started tolling cars and trucks in much of Manhattan. It has raised money, yielding the MTA about $750 million this year, almost covering the lost revenue from bus and subway fare evasion. So if picking the pockets of working people is a win, then it’s going gangbusters. Dem pol blames congestion pricing for breakup after beau couldn’t afford toll — as she rips Hochul-backed tax But the warm-and-fuzzy crowd feels like the tolls are a win for the environment and so on, and feelings are what matter, right? Hence, too, the push to redesign the city to make driving a car as expensive and inconvenient as possible. Hochul just confessed: She’ll give Mamdani his tax hikes next year Bicycles account for about 1% of all commuting, but romantics feel they’ll become New Yorkers’ most popular option if we’re relentless enough in expanding mostly-empty bike lanes — and

New York · 11d

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Saturday Proved The Deadliest Day Of The Week For Fatal Crashes In New York, With 908 Incidents Over Five Years

Fatal crashes spiked on weekends across New York State from 2020 to 2024. Saturday saw the most with 908 deadly incidents, while summer months like August recorded 564 fatal crashes, according to a new five-year study.

New York · 8d

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Work begins on $1.9 billion NYC subway upgrade funded partly by congestion pricing

The largest signal and track replacement project in MTA history will modernize equipment that dates back to the 1930s. New York transit officials have launched a $1.9 billion project to replace nearly century-old subway signals and aging tracks in Brooklyn and Queens, using revenue from Manhattan’s controversial congestion pricing program to help finance the largest overhaul of its kind in Metropolitan Transportation Authority history.

New York, NY · 11d

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New York State DOT completes most of Van Wyck Expressway Project

The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) has completed a substantial portion of main line work on the $1.4 billion Van Wyck Expressway Project. Managed-use lanes opened on Friday in both directions between the Kew Gardens Interchange and Atlantic Avenue and John F. Kennedy International Airport.  The managed-use lanes will operate as high-occupancy vehicle […] The post New York State DOT completes most of Van Wyck Expressway Project appeared first on Transportation Today .

New York · 14d

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Governor Hochul Announces MTA Ridership Surge; Long Island Rail Road Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Levels & Metro-North Breaks Weekend Records

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) achieved several significant milestones following a surge in railroad ridership, with the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the second time this year, and Metro-North Railroad setting new weekend ridership records, driven by fall travel, including foliage trains serving the Hudson Valley. Ridership on both railroads is at or near historic highs for both weekday and weekend travel, with LIRR monthly ridership in September now exceeding pre-pandemic 2019 levels.

New York · 13d

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Ex-FDNY Commissioner Issues Safety Warning on Autonomous Vehicles: ‘I Am Terrified’

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A former FDNY commissioner from Staten Island is calling on state leaders to prevent autonomous vehicles from operating in New York, citing a series of incidents across the country where driverless cars have interfered with emergency responders. In an op-ed that appeared in the New...

New York, NY · 15d

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Midtown Bus Terminal Project Moves to Temporary Facility, With NJ Commutes Already Slowed

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has advanced the $11 billion Midtown Bus Terminal replacement to preparatory work on a temporary storage and staging facility, ROI-NJ reported after the agency's Oct. 23 announcement. That building will serve as the interim terminal once the existing main terminal is...

New Jersey · 15d

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MTA Commuter Rail Ridership Rises as Weekend Travel Sets Records

Long Island Rail Road use exceeded its September 2019 level, while Metro-North set a new weekend record during the fall travel season. The gains show how commuter rail is changing as leisure trips grow, even as the MTA faces rising long-term costs. MTA commuter rail ridership reached several post-pandemic milestones...

New York, NY · 13d

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Sincaglia to succeed 37-year Port Authority veteran DeGraffe as director and GM of PATH system

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced Oct. 27 that PATH Director and General Manager Clarelle DeGraffe is retiring after more than 37 years with the agency, the last seven of which were spent leading the PATH rail transit system. Under her leadership, in 2022, PATH was...

New Jersey · 14d

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Drivers face first Monday commute on redesigned Van Wyck Expressway

Monday marked the first morning commute on the redesigned Van Wyck Expressway after New York completed a $1.4 billion reconstruction project. The project revamped a 4.3-mile stretch of the expressway, adding new lanes for certain vehicles in an effort to improve traffic flow, including for drivers traveling to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport.

New York, NY · 15d

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NYC Traffic Violations Bureau: The Deck Is Stacked Against You

As many in the community are aware, I have been defending motorists in traffic courts all around New York since 1992. I have seen a consistent decline in the alleged impartiality of the system. In my opinion, the start of the decline was in 2019, when the Department of Motor Vehicles merged with the NYC Traffic Violations Bureau. Until then, there was at least an illusion that motorists disputed their moving violations in a judicial/legal setting. This is absolutely not the case anymore.

New York, NY · 14d

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Long Island freight trains get cleaner with $10.9 million investment

For many Long Islanders, freight trains are easy to miss. Operating largely during midday and late-night hours on the same tracks used by the Long Island Rail Road, they quietly haul heavy loads that help keep stores, businesses and supply chains moving. That largely unseen network is about to get...

Long Island, NY · 15d

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Plans underway for greenways in Bronx and Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY · 15d

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Work begins on largest subway signal replacement project in MTA history

The $1.9 billion project, funded by congestion pricing, will replace 1930s-era equipment with modern technology along the A and C train routes in Brooklyn and Queens.

Brooklyn, NY · 18d

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Governor Hochul Announces Completion Of Major Work On The Transformative Van Wyck Expressway Project

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the substantial completion of main line work on the transformational $1.4 billion Van Wyck Expressway Project with the opening of new managed-use lanes for taxis and high-occupancy vehicles in both directions between the Kew Gardens Interchange and Atlantic Avenue and John F. Kennedy International Airport. A centerpiece of the project, the managed-use lanes will provide speedier trips to and from the airport for taxis and other multi-person vehicles, thereby encouraging their use and reducing congestion along the main line highway. The new lanes, which opened Friday morning, are one of several new features and safety enhancements added to the Van Wyck Expressway as part of the project, which will be considered fully complete once work to rehabilitate nearby service roads is finished later this year.

New York, NY · 18d