A review by Daniel Nairn of a new book, Ethics of Metropolitan Growth: The Future of our Built Environment, by Robert Kirkland. The review is insightful and worth reading in full, but it contains a few points that are particularly relevant to New Jersey Future and its mission.
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Insights from Review of “The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth”
Wednesday, January 5th, 201130 Day Review an Ominous Sign for ARC Tunnel Project
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010This weekend, NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein announced a 30-day hold on the $8.7 billion ARC tunnel project, to allow for a review of the project’s costs. The hold will not affect work already underway, though it will delay […]
RPA Report Finds ARC To Raise Home Values By $18 Billion
Friday, July 30th, 2010Though it’s been billed as the most expensive infrastructure project in the nation, the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) tunnel currently under construction between New Jersey and New York will provide a substantial return on investment, according to a […]
DEP Announces New Initiative to Combat Transportation Emissions
Friday, June 18th, 2010Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin announced yesterday that New Jersey is joining 10 other states and the District of Columbia to form the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), “a regional group that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through […]
This Week in Transportation
Thursday, June 17th, 2010With affordable housing reform and budget negotiations in full swing in Trenton, transportation has taken a bit of a back seat in the media lately. However several recent articles, op-eds and editorials are a reminder that there is a lot […]
Could NJ’s Depleted Trust Fund Jeopardize Federal Funding for ARC?
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010That is the question posed by Phillip Barbara in a guest column in yesterday’s Star-Ledger. With New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund nearly broke, and no solution on the horizon, Barbara suggests that the federal government may be leery of committing to […]
NJ Sens. Menendez and Lautenberg Introduce Emergency Transit Funding Bill
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010In response to recent fare increases and service cuts at NJ Transit, New Jersey’s two U.S. senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez joined six of their Democratic colleagues to introduce a bill Tuesday that would authorize $2 billion in emergency […]
NJ Ranked as 8th Friendliest State for Bicyclists
Monday, May 24th, 2010The League of American Cyclists ranked New Jersey as the 8th friendliest state in the nation for bicyclists in the 2010 version of their annual rankings, up two spots from 2009. The top five states in the survey were Washington, […]
State Affirms Support—But No Money—for PATCO Extension
Friday, May 14th, 2010Last year, then-Governor Corzine went to Woodbury to proclaim his support for the extension of PATCO rail service to Gloucester County. More important, he committed $500 million from the state’s Transportation Trust Fund (yes, that Transportation Trust Fund) toward the estimated […]
Celebrate Earth Day on Two Wheels … or Two Feet
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010New Jersey ranks third to last in per-capita spending of federal transportation dollars on bicycle and pedestrian projects, according to the T4America campaign.