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Long Island Town of Hempstead Freezes New Housing, Highlighting Hochul’s Uphill Battle Hempstead once passed plans to spur apartments near LIRR stations. Now it’s extending a development moratorium.

Hochul Gives Green Signal To Light Rail On The Interborough Express Gov. Hochul was poised to use her State of the State address on Tuesday afternoon to announce that the MTA will choose light rail for the Interborough Express, the transit connection on an existing…

Wrong Turn: America’s Car Culture and the Road Not Taken With its highways and suburbs, modern America was built around the automobile and powered by fossil fuels. The oil crises of the 1970s provided an opportunity to change course and move to renewable energy, but any momentum achieved then proved to be very short-lived.

MTA to Get Slim Slice of Federal Infrastructure Bill as Cars Outpace Mass Transit The nation’s largest transit agency would reap about 1.9% of the planned $550 billion nationwide spending on transportation, which some critics say continues to focus too heavily on roads and highways.

Bob Diamond, Brooklyn rail and trolley advocate, remembered Tributes have been pouring in on social media for Bob Diamond, the Brooklyn streetcar and rail advocate who died this past Saturday at the age of 62 in his home in Flatbush. Diamond was best known for two things. As an engineering student in the early 1980s, he discovered, using old maps and documen...