The club cited the Metuchen Square development in Hoboken as the state's best project and Oakland's Ramapo River Reserve development as the state's worst, based on 30 positive and 20 negative criteria, such as location near mass transit, concern for endangered species and preserving greenways.
At a Congressional hearing in June, Representative Peter A. DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat who is the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, raised concerns that companies that install the cameras were unfairly profiting from the contracts that local governments awarded them.
But he added, once the quasi-governmental agency is created to oversee transportation issues, "people who have an interest in bikes, in mass transit or concerns about the environment will then have access to come before this body and make their arguments".
The reasons that explain the late adaptation of liner services relate to inertia, transit time concerns, increasing costs associated with fixing schedule integrity problems and fleet management issues.
For women and children in transit, protection concerns, particularly sexual and gender-based violence, are significant.
But when the canal is constructed, the American ports will be far nearer than Caupi, as far as length of transit is concerned, than even the nearest European ports.
"The language is in the bill, the mandate is there from the public, and as people see the funding actually going to transit, that concern will be addressed," he said.
Transit officials, concerned about recent power failures that knocked out subway lines in Manhattan and Brooklyn, severely cut back on train service in Queens to conserve about 60 megawatts of power.
The transit strike largely concerns the M.T.A.'s effort to deal with projected budget deficits of $438 million over the next 10 years, said a transit authority spokesman, Gary Mosk.
