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Will NJ Transit raise fares for the fourth time since 2002? It’s an election-year budget season in New Jersey, and with state tax revenues plummeting and voters reeling from national economic woes, the task at hand is how to gather the political and financial capital to keep the state moving. The draft budget released [...] Even though negotiations over an MTA rescue plan are now at a standstill, New York’s elected leaders say there won’t be fare hikes and service cuts. Today Gov. Paterson said of the fare hikes, “We are not going to put that burden on the people.” For his part, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, “we [...] Connecticut will use stimulus money to purchase hybrid buses for transit agencies around the state. With the recent release of bus, rail and greenway projects, the Connecticut Economic Recovery Working Group has finished allocating the $440 million for transportation received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), otherwise known as the stimulus [...] |
 
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