NJ TRANSIT and regional transportation agencies have announced a comprehensive mobility plan for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, outlining how tens of thousands of fans will travel to matches at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford.
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The game plan for moving hundreds of thousands of fans around the New Jersey and New York area is taking shape during the World Cup in June and July. But it’s not just commuters and spectators scrutinizing schedules and prices.
The borough has scrapped plans to install a bike lane on Hillside Avenue and canceled a planned demonstration of the project, citing resident pushback.
The NJDOT plans to reconfigure the interchange by consolidating the four roadways into two roundabouts. One roundabout will be centered around Route 9 southbound traffic, and the other around Route 9 northbound traffic.
One dredging project, estimated to cost $25 million-$100 million and run from September until February 2027, would remove as much as 400,000 cubic yards of largely silt and clay from Newark Bay. A second Corps project would remove material from waters south of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and in the Arthur Kill Channel, the water between New Jersey and Staten Island.
Hudson County Executive Craig Guy announced Wednesday the Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to award a contract to transportation consulting firm Nelson/Nygaard to conduct a Bus Rapid Transit feasibility study along John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Bayonne and Jersey City.
The final stop of NJ Transit's Raritan Valley commuter line, the High Bridge station, is getting much needed attention from NJ Transit with infrastructure items being addressed as better weather conditions have arrived.
The two massive tunnel boring machines that will do the first drilling for the Gateway Rail Tunnel between New York and New Jersey are now in North Bergen, laid out in components across a construction site. Even the parts are gigantic, dwarfing the people who work on it.
The first of a fleet of new electric-powered Multilevel III rail cars were unveiled Monday, more than seven years after they were ordered in 2018, and Gov. Mikie Sherrill said she wants them put in service this year.