Daniel Convissor's Website

Passenger Trains & Transit

Transit Projects

• NJ Transit is building major new transit facilities in Hudson and Bergen Counties, though could be doing a far better job. Even worse, the NJ Department of Transportation wants to build highways serving these same locations, negating these transit investments.

• Staten Island Transportation Issues: Transportation agencies are working to pave over the island. Actions include expanding the Goethals Bridge and the Expressway plus giving cars access to the Ferry. Such moves will affect the whole region. Right now, the DOT wants to build new lanes on the SI Expressway under the guise of them being "Bus Lanes." In reality, they'll end up being a car lanes. Worse yet, the DOT is trying to get around including the project in the Major Investment Study that's underway for the corridor.

• "NJ Transit Can Do Better Than Rely on Park-and-Ride Lots." By Daniel Convissor. Published as a "Speaking Up" opinion piece in the 29 May 1996 edition of The Star-Ledger.

• Proposed transportation improvements for access to Yankee Stadium. The City and State are considering tons of parking and new highways. The real answer is regional transit access.

• "DOT Sees More Highways As Brooklyn's Road to Clean Air." By Daniel Convissor. Auto-Free Press, January/February 1992.

• Highways v Transit in the Cross-Westchester Corridor

• Staten Island Transportation Issues: Transportation agencies are working to pave over the island. Actions include expanding the Goethals Bridge and the Expressway plus giving cars access to the Ferry. Such moves will affect the whole region.

• Centralized Electric and Traffic Control on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor

• Northeast Corridor: Boston-New Haven Electrification

Policy Discussions

• A Conservative Transportation Policy. By Daniel Convissor. Auto-Free Press, November/December 1990. Reprinted in Solar Mind, March/April 1991.

• Governments' Fiscal Policies have a tremendous impact on transportation choices.

• Facts about Mass Transit

• Majority of Americans Support Mass Transit

• Bike Racks for Buses

• Amtrak Bike Access Policies

Decision Makers

• My NJ Transit Page. This contains my information on NJ Transit, mass transit issues in New Jersey as well as arguments against park and ride lots.

• My Metropolitan Transportation Authority Page. This also has lots of my general transit info.

• My brief explanation of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council

• North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority

• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Important Organizations

• Modern Transit Society is working to improve transit and reduce automobile dependence in California.

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