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The years-in-the-making plans to establish ferry service in Bayonne took a huge step forward when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agreed to sell the city more than two acres of land on the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor. The city will purchase 2.3 acres of land along Port Terminal Boulevard — a small portion of the 31 acres it sold to Port Authority in 2010 — for $4.04 million.

Drivers who park at the regions’ three major airports have done it since 2003 and soon millions of drivers in 19 states, including New Jersey, will be able to use their E-ZPass tag to pay for parking and to buy gas.  The expansion of the Driven by E-ZPass non-toll payment program across the 19-state E-ZPass Group network, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, was announced Tuesday by PayByCar, Inc., a mobile payment company that is making the service possible.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation recently announced that two of its projects had been named regional winners in the 2024 America’s Transportation Awards Competition. The two projects – the Route 3, Route 46, Valley Road & Notch/Rifle Camp Road Interchanges and the I-76/I-676, Bridges and Pavement, Contract 1 – were chosen from a wide array of projects across the country.

The Port Authority authorized the first construction contract for a new bus terminal in midtown Manhattan on Thursday. The authorization was for $271 million, with $187.7 million of that to pave over areas of Dyer Avenue, which will be a staging area for construction of new ramps, the new terminal and bus storage. The construction contract is expected to go to New York-based MLJ Contracting Corp.