Hours long waits in Houston. Lines stretching to the parking garage in New Orleans. Images of exasperating delays at airport security checkpoints have reverberated across social media this week, alarming travelers as the partial government shutdown drags into the spring break vacation rush.
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NJ Transit riders are seeing clearer views on their commute after the agency replaced many of its rail car windows. Officials say about half of the multilevel rail cars now have new windows. A total of 188 cars, often called double‑deckers, received replacements.
Developed in collaboration with Essex County, the publication was prepared with funding from the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority and the Federal Highway Administration.
Travelers complained of long waits Sunday — lasting hours in some cases — at security checkpoints at airports in Houston and New Orleans, which officials blamed on a government shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Middlesex County law enforcement officials are crediting a safety initiative with helping reduce motor vehicle deaths on one of the busiest roads cutting through New Brunswick and five other municipalities.
Road crews around the state are parking snow plows and bringing out the pothole repair equipment earlier this year.
New Jersey gas prices could hit $4 a gallon within the next week, analysts are saying, as the Iran conflict drags into its second week.
The Ocean County Board of Commissioners has authorized several traffic safety improvement projects designed to enhance road safety across the county, including new and upgraded traffic signals in Lakewood, Berkeley Township, and Jackson Township.
Amtrak has scheduled urgent repairs on the tracks in New York Penn Station that will align with the final 10 days of the "Portal Cutover," NorthJersey.com has exclusively learned.
Between 2017 and 2021, 19 people were killed in car accidents in Hunterdon County, and 64 were seriously injured. Those statistics are at the heart of an effort approved by the county board of commissioners on March 3 to reduce the number of road fatalities to zero by 2050. The development of the local safety action plan was initiated in 2023 with the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority.