September 9, 2008

Dephub Buka Posko Terpadu Angkutan Lebaran 23 September 2008

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Dephub Buka Posko Terpadu Angkutan Lebaran 23 September 2008
Novia Chandra Dewi – detikNews

Jakarta – Mudik menjadi gawe besar tahunan Departemen Perhubungan (Dephub). Untuk memantau angkutan lebaran tahun ini, Posko Terpadu Angkutan Lebaran akan dibuka pada Selasa 23 September 2008.
Posko terpadu merupakan suatu kordinasi bersifat fisik antara Dephub [...]

September 9, 2008

NYT : Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices Cut Congestion

By WILLIAM NEUMAN
Published: July 3, 2008

Soaring gas prices and higher tolls seem to be doing for traffic in New York what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious congestion pricing was supposed to do: reducing the number of cars clogging the city’s streets and pushing more people to use mass transit.

In May, with gasoline at more than [...]

September 9, 2008

M.T.A. Shortfall Renews Talk of Congestion Pricing

By RAY RIVERA
Published: August 3, 2008

Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
A panel led by Richard Ravitch, a former M.T.A. chairman, is to devise a plan to rescue the authority from its financial hole.

The financial crisis at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is breathing new life into an idea the Legislature rejected just [...]

September 9, 2008

No Need for Speed

Op-Ed Contributor
By KENT A. SEPKOWITZ
Published: September 7, 2008

SPEEDING is the cause of 30 percent of all traffic deaths in the United States — about 13,000 people a year. By comparison, alcohol is blamed 39 percent of the time, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. But unlike drinking, which requires the police, breathalyzers and [...]

September 9, 2008

The Riders Pay

Editorial of The New York Times.
Published: September 8, 2008

New York City’s mass-transit system is deteriorating and desperately underfunded. The politicians know this, but they are still providing far too little in the way of financing. The result is that the system’s users, many of them already suffering from tough economic times, could be stuck with [...]