Drivers on six New Jersey highways will see an increased police presence on Thursday as officials conduct an emergency evacuation drill that would be implemented if a major hurricane hit the state.
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The New Jersey Department of Transportation announced last week that Berkeley Heights received the $1,270,000 from the Safe Streets to School Program for the “Safer Streets, Happy Feet: Berkeley Heights Mountain Ave Sidewalk Project.”
Four Central Jersey municipalities have received grants to improve pedestrian safety under the state's Safe Routes to School program: High Bridge, $530,000 . Bridgewater, $768,000. Berkeley Heights $1.2 million. New Providence, $534,000. In total, the state awarded $21.1 million for 23 projects throughout the state.
Coach USA informed NJ TRANSIT it is preparing to prematurely terminate contracts it has with the agency for 20 bus routes in Bergen, Hudson and Passaic counties. Coach sought to preserve as many of its bus services and jobs as possible by reaching asset purchase agreements with companies, including The Renco Group, Inc., which agreed to buy Rockland Coaches and Suburban Transit. Suburban operates 14 NJ TRANSIT routes in Middlesex County and one in Union.
NJ TRANSIT was awarded a $99.5 million federal grant to build a bus-charging station with solar canopies at its Meadowlands Bus Garage.This was the largest grant of the 117 awarded by the Federal Transit Administration this year through one of its competitive grant programs offered through the 2021 Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act. NJ Transit will pay for the 20 percent local match required for the grant using toll credits.
It’s an alarming trend — fatal crashes are going up, and more people are dying while on the road. Fixing it, law enforcement officials in one New Jersey county say, starts with drivers.
NJ TRANSIT fares increased by 15 percent on Monday, but a new fare payment system using ticket validators on buses went into service this spring.
Amtrak president CEO Stephen Gardner offered possible short- and long-term solutions to the recent delays and suspensions of NJ Transit rail service on the Northeast Corridor that recently inconvenienced and enraged tens of thousands of passengers, U.S. Rep Frank Pallone, D-6th Dist., said early last week.
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A history making $6.8 billion federal grant completing $11 billion in federal funding to build the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York was officially secured at a Monday morning ceremony in Manhattan, yards from where the first tunnel machine will start gnawing its way under the Hudson River.
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History will remember those who led the effort to get us to a point of no return,” Gateway Development Comission CEO Kris Kolluri said during a Monday ceremony in New York to mark securing $6.88 billion in historic federal funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project.
