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With summer vacation near, a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport is set to reopen today. The announcement is 13 days ahead of schedule. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is scheduled to hold a news conference this afternoon to speak about the progress. There was pressure to get the runway completed as quickly as possible because of all the recent issues causing delays and cancellations at the airport.

New Jersey is coming off its deadliest year for pedestrians since 1986 and the third-highest number of cyclists killed in a quarter century, according to State Police statistics. So it came as a surprise to some transportation advocates when the Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled his 2026 fiscal year budget proposing to cut local transportation project funding by more than half.

As the Memorial Day weekend approached, Harvey Cedars hosted a Street Smart NJ kickoff rally May 22 at the High Point Firehouse. Street Smart NJ is a public awareness and behavioral change campaign aimed at reducing pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes. It complements other state and local efforts to build safer streets and sidewalks, enforce laws and train better road users.

We're officially past Memorial Day, and the summer season is now underway. From Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, New Jerseyans will be hitting the road and looking for that new adventure. Or, will they? Despite the summer season being big for travel, there's a trend happening this year that, in all honestly, is pretty alarming. It may not, however, be that apparent on the surface.

Residents are invited to attend a public workshop to help shape strategies to improve road safety in Sussex County. The workshop will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 3 in the commissioners meeting room at the county Administrative Center, 1 Spring St., Newton.