Cranes are used to lower parts of the tunnel boring machine gantries into place for assembly in the launch box on the New Jersey side of the Gateway rail tunnel project in June 2026.
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The Hudson River has long been dotted with piers and docks that served railroads and shipping lines in the 19th century, all of them gone, replaced or now hidden underwater.
NJ TRANSIT announced it has replaced windows on 241 multilevel rail cars, representing 56% of its current multilevel fleet, as the agency continues an accelerated effort to eliminate the cloudy windows that have become a frequent complaint among rail passengers.
Most people know the difference between a road and a street. But transportation experts say many of New Jersey's busiest highways are actually something in between — a "stroad."
Dollar vans are a familiar part of life in neighborhoods near Flatbush Avenue with large populations of Caribbean immigrants. The minibus services grew in popularity during the 1980 transit strike and continued to operate in areas across the city — largely in areas that lack subway service.
Most states now have an annual EV fee in place, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. A nationwide fee of $130 a year could be on the way, too, if a proposal in a bipartisan transportation funding bill makes its way through Congress.
For years, Dorr told anyone who would listen about his simple way of making highways safer. A line on the side of the road, he argued, would give drivers somewhere to aim their eyes at night other than oncoming headlights. Over time, his revolutionary stripe of paint would reach billions of people and guide drivers across the planet.
There are two reasons bigger vehicles are deadlier: They have taller hoods. And they tend to have larger blind zones.
