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.
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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.
HACKENSACK, NJ - As part of a continuing effort to revitalize downtown Hackensack, the city has partnered with the county to redevelop the NJ Transit bus terminal.
The 13 companies who were selected by the Transit Tech Lab (TTL) to participate in last year’s TTL challenges program will continue to work with the lab’s regional transportation agency partners in larger-scale pilots. The TTL will challenge these companies to demonstrate how their technology can improve transportation accessibility and deliver essential services more effectively. TTL notes these companies were initially chosen from 150 global applicants to conduct a minimally viable proof of concept (POC) that addressed a top priority for one or more of the agency partners.
People who use NJ Transit’s Rider’s Choice, which allowed Access Link passengers to use Uber or Lyft, instead of one of NJ Transit’s Access Link vehicles, is transitioning to two new providers that meet new federal requirements for drug and alcohol testing, officials said.