As the Red Bank Planning Board met to consider a relatively minor tweak to the potential redevelopment plan being written for the train station area last week, the topic quickly shifted – and remained for much of the night – on a much larger, complicated question: how the heck does the redevelopment process actually work?
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FRENCHTOWN - The previously announced Feb. 18 start date for travel restrictions on the Delaware River bridge from Frenchtown to Uhlerstown because of a rehabilitation project has been postponed. According to the the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, the bridge will remain open to traffic in both directions at least through Wednesday, Feb. 19.
In the 13 months that NJ Transit's new CEO has ahead of him, Kris Kolluri said he has a list of items that are frequent rider complaints about the agency’s trains, buses and stations.
The Hudson County Board of Commissioners has voted to apply for more than $47 million in funding from the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority to make improvements to roadways throughout Hudson County.
It’s no secret the rollout of a federal program to expand electric vehicle fast charger access has been, well, rocky. It just got rockier. More than $104 million was allocated for new fast EV chargers in New Jersey via the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, program.
The $31 million PATH project to rebuild the station and infrastructure at Hoboken Terminal is at the halfway mark and officials promised multiple times on Thursday that it will be done on time.
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The borough, at the western end of NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line, has been designated as a transit village by the state The borough, with a population of nearly 3,600 nestled in the Hunterdon Hills, is the first Hunterdon County municipality to receive the designation and the 36th in the state.
NJ Transit board members approved a $95 million contract with Academy bus to operate local bus service in Middlesex County four years after the bus company was accused of fraud case by the state and agreed to pay a $20 million fine.
Kris Kolluri laid out an ambitious set of priorities to tackle at his first public board meeting as the president and CEO of NJ Transit. Kolluri said he plans to focus on three main themes: customer service, safety and reliability; fiscal outlook and efficiency; and rolling stock.
This is a bold commitment, but bold is that exactly what we need to be,” said Francis O’Connor, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation, at a conference Monday to highlight “Getting to Zero,” the state’s goal of zero traffic deaths by 2040 — and the Safe System approach being used to reduce road crashes.
