Just a quick note to memorialize the passing of Centro’s 178 Fairmount Hills route, formerly known as the 4G. Since the time of Christ, it served the far-flung upper reaches of the southeast of the Town of Camillus, but fell victim to Centro service cuts effective Monday. I forgot this was going to […]

The Champlain Bridge left this earthly life at 10:04 a.m. Eastern time in a driving snowstorm. Watch its final moments here. This gentleman sums it up better than I ever could:

The Post-Standard has a roundup of the intense outcry over the new New York license plates. Most of the rancor seems to be about the mandatory $25 fee that is supposed to raise up to $130 million for the state’s coffers, but I’ve talked to a lot of people who just absolutely hate the […]

The Syracuse International Film Festival finished its latest run this past weekend and there is good news!
The whole goal of the Syracuse Film Office is to get more films made in central New York — and it’s already making progress. “We had a Hollywood group, they were looking for a series of highways with […]

Last December, I made a list of what I thought were the top 10 statewide stories of the year. Last year’s list appears so undramatic compared to 2008, truly a tumultuous year in New York’s politics and economy. And most of the stories spawned other important stories, a chain of events that is […]

I don’t intend for this to become a transportation blog, but seriously, even such a modest uptick in commercial shipping on the Erie Canal becomes vastly more interesting when you throw Oswego’s future container port into the mix, and then Fault Lines adds Griffiss Park to the vision:
Griffiss IS a port, with the potential to […]

Last night’s Channel 9 newscast and this morning’s Post-Standard both had stories on the big doin’s up at the Port of Oswego. The TV report focused on the increased current traffic at the Port, and the PS story was about how Oswego has been selected for one of the first container-shipping terminals in the […]

A reader proposal for a Syracuse streetcar line; plus interesting news about the state’s plans for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

The Onondaga Citizens League has a new blog, and they are posing the question: What is to be done about Route 81? (hey, that rhymes…) With car sales plummeting and gas prices rising, and bus ridership increasing, maybe that question is more relevant than ever. OCL is starting a study committee called […]

In the comments of the previous post, Simon notes the big trucker rally in Albany today protesting Thruway tolls and gas prices (are they also protesting the Finger Lakes trash truck agreement?) Hate to say it, but I wonder if that honking sound you hear is the sound of dying dinosaurs. I was […]