On the scale of practices that bother consumers, credit card surcharges fall somewhere between mildly annoying and utterly offensive. And they’re legal, as long as businesses stay within the parameters of the law. But one driver’s recent experience renewing two car registrations online with the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) is making the experience better for all consumers.
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On Thursday at 10 a.m., Harvey Cedars will launch a public safety campaign to reduce pedestrian accidents. The news conference marks the beginning of the Street Smart NJ initiative on Long Beach Island.
Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposed corporate transit fee, designed provide the first dedicated funding to help NJ Transit, is not the business killer opponents say it is, according to a report authored by a progressive think tank.
The LVTS, along with representatives from PennDOT, consulting company WSP and the public, took part in the virtual meeting that went over the Lehigh Valley Passenger Rail Feasibility Analysis released in late March.
NFI Group Inc.'s subsidiary, New Flyer of America Inc. (New Flyer), has been awarded a contract from NJ Transit for the purchase of up to 1,300 Xcelsior 40-foot clean-diesel transit buses. This contract is pursuant to the November 2023 NJ Transit Board authorization for NJ Transit to enter into contracts for 550 40-foot transit buses and options to purchase up to 750 additional 40-foot transit buses.
The state Department of Transportation has announced plans to replace the bridges over the Delaware & Raritan Canal on Landing Lane in New Brunswick and Main Street in South Bound Brook. Construction on the two projects is not expected to begin until May 2027.
New Jersey residents are once again getting a chuckle at various points on the highway, as the digital signs reminding them to be safe on the road are back with new messages.
NJ Transit will offer refunds for unused one-way bus, rail and light rail tickets purchased before June 1, 2024, after receiving a firestorm of criticism from riders that their unused tickets would be worthless after a July 1 policy change took effect.
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The rider of a low-speed electric scooter is not considered a pedestrian, like bicyclists are, under New Jersey insurance law, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
New Jersey, which has challenged New York’s congestion pricing plan to charge a fee to enter lower Manhattan in court, is seeing some money out of the plan after all.