Daniel Convissor's Website

Automobiles

• 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.

• Manhattan's West Side: Route 9A Reconstruction, the proposed park and development.

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

• 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.

• Highways v Transit in the Cross-Westchester Corridor

• Impact statement for the I-287/Cross Westchester Expressway widening uses bogus data.

• Suburban Politicians Want Transit, Not HOV Lanes

• Proposed Ringwood Bypass Highway

Policy Discussions

• Automobile Reduction Measures

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

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

• Why Automobiles are Central to our Culture. By Daniel Convissor. A Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, 5 May 1991.

• Misplanning is a Problem, but Cars are No Scapegoat By Daniel Convissor. A Letter to the Editor of The Star-Ledger published on 22 August 1991.

• Superhighway, Superhoax. By Hellen Levitt

• Smart Highways, An Assessment of Their Potential to Improve Travel. General Accounting Office. May 1991.

• Highway Battle Archives: Historical files covering grassroots community organizing against highway expansion. From CONTACT-U.S. and the Highway Action Coalition, maintained by Gary Nelson.

• Toles Cartoon on the American Lifestyle

• HOV Lanes in Quebec

Vehicle Design

• Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency

• Alternative Fuels

• Batteries v Fuel Cells

• Vehicle Design

• Energy Consumption: Bikes v Cars

• All the oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf would serve the US's energy needs for about 235 days.

Impacts

• Autos generate serious safety problems

• The Environmental Cost of One Car

• Transportation Related Pollution

• Transportation Pollution Statistics

• Facts about Roadways

Important Organizations

Decision Makers

• My brief explanation of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council

• North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority

• An interview with Richard DuHaime, then Chair of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, and failed Republican candidate in NJ for the US Senate.

• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey