A high-speed rail line hopes to connect Los Angeles to New York City in time for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. A proposal — dubbed “The Transcontinental Chief” and pitched to Amtrak as well as President Trump and his secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy — would shoot riders between the country’s two biggest cities in just 72 hours.
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Three notorious left turn lanes near the Memorial Parkway Post Office in Phillipsburg will be permanently restricted. Construction on the left lanes could begin as early as Wednesday, July 16.
Travelers rejoice – the days of taking your shoes off at the airport have come to an end. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the policy change July 8, which has been in effect since 2006. The move allows passengers to keep their shoes on while passing through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at domestic airports.
It may be just another road in New Jersey to some, but you could call a brand new underpass in North Bergen the gateway to the Gateway Tunnel. “We’re building an underpass so that the tunnel boring machines can actively go back and forth underneath Tonnelle Avenue,” said John Schweppenheiser, a construction manager with Niak Consulting, one of many contractors on the Gateway Tunnel project.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is moving ahead with the next steps of its planned Newark Bay-Hudson County Extension program, amid lingering public opposition and threats of lawsuits aimed at derailing the $11-billion effort to upgrade the heavily used, aging 8.1-mile highway corridor between Newark and Jersey City.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY – A crackdown by several municipal law enforcement agencies, including the New Brunswick Police Department, on dangerous driving along Route 1 in Middlesex County has resulted in 319 speeding tickets since March.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has begun construction of a new entry point to the Newark Liberty International Airport Train Station served by AirTrain Newark, Amtrak, and NJ TRANSIT rail.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Division of Local Aid and Economic Development recently awarded 38 projects statewide $44 million in Local Bridges Fund grants to help counties maintain local bridges.
The pavement on I-287 south that buckled in the recent record-settting heat wave is the original concrete installed in the 1990s and will finally be rehabilitated in 2027, New Jersey Department of Transportation officials said.
A new fiber optic network has been installed to support the air traffic control system that serves Newark Liberty International Airport, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said in a statement Thursday.
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