The League urges local government to:

• Press the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, regional, state, and federal decision-makers for adequate funding to complete (a) the East Side Access Project, which will create a rail-link for LIRR through New York City's 63^rd Street Tunnel, cut commuting times and help reduce air pollution, and, (b) station upgrades and other crucial LIRR improvements.
• Ensure comprehensive transportation planning for all future development that, at a minimum, (a) includes long-term cost-benefit analyses of the preferred plan and at least one alternate scenario, (b) assesses all potential environmental and economic ramifications, (c) improves the efficacy of and/or increases the number of connections between transportation modes, (d) encourages bicycle and pedestrian transportation, and, (e) incorporates single-occupancy travel demand reduction strategies.
• Construct a more complete network of bike routes, giving priority to those routes stressed in the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council's 2005-2030 Regional Transportation Plan.
• Promote bicycle and pedestrian friendly transportation.
• Provide tax incentives and/or "Employee Commute Options Program" fee exemptions to businesses that expand the number and/or effectiveness of employee commuting option programs (examples include supplying links to mass transit, preferential parking to employees who commute via carpools, and/or employees with a choice between subsidized parking and cash).
• Adopt parking need and demand reduction ordinances, or similar parking control laws.
• Encourage local governments and businesses to offer and promote use of tax-free commuter benefits.
• Offer County and municipal employees staggered work hours to reduce traffic congestion.
• Develop better connections between bus and train service.
• Study means of diversifying the public transit fleet to optimize efficiency and usage during off-peak hours (e.g. mini-vans).
• Ensure that any new road construction projects on local roads include sidewalks.
• Expand parking capacity at railroad stations, including non-resident parking.
• Develop possibilities for passenger ferries and an environmentally responsible waterborne transportation plan.
• Investigate expansion of LIRR for commercial freight.
• Explore public transit opportunities for North/South corridors, focusing on business districts to encourage these centralized areas of trade, travel, shopping and business.
• Ensure that all new buses are equipped to run on alternative, less polluting fuels.