The state Assembly approved a bill that would effectively hike the gas tax on United Airlines, the largest airline company doing business in New Jersey, in order to finance the extension of the PATH Train to Newark Liberty International Airport. Senate Bill 2892, sponsored by Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd District, and approved in a ...
Read More »Raritan Valley Community College has earned top honors in both the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s 2018 NJ Charging Challenge and the New Jersey Smart Workplaces program.
Read More »New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy toured the aging North River Tunnel on Monday that carries 200,000 New Jersey Transit and Amtrak passengers each day under the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York Penn Station. “The Gateway Tunnel is the most critical infrastructure project in the country,” Murphy said. “Our future economic viability depends ...
Read More »Starting this summer, NY Waterway will provide service between Newport in Jersey City and Manhattan from a new landing dock, Newport Associates Development Co. announced on Monday. Scheduled to begin summer 2019, the service will run between Newport and the West 39th Street Ferry Terminal in Manhattan seven days a week. Newport’s new ferry landing ...
Read More »New Jersey Transit will begin restoring rail service that has been subject to temporary service adjustments in the second quarter of 2019, starting with the Atlantic City Rail Line and the Princeton Branch (Dinky). The agency is addressing a continuing shortage of locomotive engineers, equipment availability, positive train control installations and maintenance inspections. New Jersey ...
Read More »Paramus-based CarePlus NJ Inc., an integrated primary and behavioral health services company for adults and children, will join forces with Uber, the ride-sharing platform, through its HIPAA-compliant technology solution, Uber Health. The initiative will enable CarePlus to provide on-demand and pre-scheduled rides to those traveling to and from appointments. In a statement, CarePlus said that ...
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The New Jersey Assembly transportation committee approved a resolution Thursday urging Congress to examine Amtrak operations at New York Penn Station. Assembly Resolution 57 is sponsored by Assemblyman Rob Clifton, R-12th District; Assemblywoman Nancy Munoz, R-21st District; and Assemblywoman BettyLou DeCroce, R-26th District. “It is bad enough that commuters are forced to contend with NJ ...
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New Jerseyans pumped an additional $57 million into the economy due to the availability of Lyft rides in 2018, the company announced. Choosing Lyft over other forms of transportation saved riders six million hours according to the company’s economic impact report, amounting to time savings valued at $249 million. The report released Thursday showed positive ...
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Gateway Development Corp. Chairman Jerry Zaro on Wednesday thanked federal representatives for sponsoring the Transportation Funding Fairness Act. The nonprofit is currently planning an estimated $20 billion to $30 billion infrastructure project that features the replacement of the 108-year-old Portal Bridge, construction of a new two-track Hudson River rail tunnel from New Jersey to ...
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The state’s top transportation officials and Gov. Phil Murphy are making the case for the $2.1 billion reconstruction of the AirTrain, a three mile monorail loop opened in 1996 that connects the three terminals of Newark Liberty International Airport. Murphy, at the AirTrain Station in Newark Tuesday afternoon, against the backdrop of Newark Airport and ...
Read More »Ride-sharing company Lyft is partnering with the Port Authority Trans-Hudson to offer rail riders a 50 percent discount on car rides in the overnight hours from midnight Friday to 5 a.m. Saturday and from midnight Saturday until 5 a.m. Sunday both ways between Exchange Place in Jersey City and the World Trade Center in New ...
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Gateway Program Development Corp. Chairman Jerry Zaro issued a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao calling for immediate completion of the environmental review and issuance of a record of decision to allow the Hudson Tunnel Project to go forward under President Donald Trump’s One Federal Decision policy. The federal government shutdown has ...
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