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Disability rights advocates and others protested NJ Transit service cuts earlier this year. Just one day after NJ Transit’s service cuts went into effect, NJ Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff announced that the state needed to make additional cuts to close a $325 million budget gap by June 30, the end of the fiscal year. [...] In light of growing concerns for New Jersey’s environmental health, Tri-State Transportation Campaign is celebrating the creation of the NJ League of Conservation Voters. Organized around the belief that participation in the political process is essential to protecting New Jersey’s environment and health, the group sprung from a collaboration of well established state environmental organizations such [...] A gas tax referendum may be on the table, and a smaller transportation capital plan is on the way, NJDOT Commissioner Jim Simpson said during a heated State Senate Budget Committee hearing last Thursday. Though the hearing was ostensibly on NJDOT’s and NJ Transit’s fiscal 2011 budgets, senators spent the bulk of it grilling [...] The board of NJ Transit unanimously voted to raise fares and cut service yesterday, spurring activists, advocates, elected officials and individual citizens to bring their frustrations to the streets and the board room. Originally planning to raise fares 25% across the board with significant service cuts, the agency scaled back the proposal, reducing the local bus [...]
During a meeting with the Star-Ledger‘s editorial board last month, Governor Christie offered up some blunt honesty while discussing his plan to raise NJ Transit fares by 25% and cut service across the state (at 0:41 in the video): Editorial board member: What’s the difference between a gas tax [...] A capacity crowd attended yesterday's NJ Transit hearing in Newark. Desperation, anger, and fear were the dominant emotions during the first day of public hearings on New Jersey’s doomsday plan for transit. In Newark, Trenton, Manalapan, and Paterson, hundreds of commuters voiced their vehement opposition to the Christie administration’s proposed 25% fare [...] Christie, during his budget speech. Addressing a joint session of the state legislature yesterday morning, Governor Christie announced that he will cut state funding to NJ Transit by $33 million as part of an effort to close the state’s $2 billion budget deficit. He charged the agency with “patronage hiring” and suggested that [...] The new Speedway Elementary School was built near two busy roads and the Garden State Parkway. As previously reported in MTR, the new Speedway Elementary School was built along two very busy roadways and near ramps for the Garden State Parkway, without a playground or safe access to a large park across the [...] Atlantic City Rail Line riders have expressed concern over the elimination of a popular morning rush hour train. January has been an ominous month for New Jersey’s transit riders. At the press conference where he announced his picks to lead the state’s transportation agencies, Gov. Christie reiterated his opposition to a gas tax [...] From left: NJDOT Commissioner nominee Jim Simpson, NJ Transit Executive Director nominee Jim Weinstein. Moments ago, incoming Governor Chris Christie announced that Jim Simpson is his nominee to head the NJ Department of Transportation and Jim Weinstein will lead NJ Transit. Both come to their positions with plenty of transportation experience. New NJDOT [...] |
 
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