Portal Bridge Meeting Canceled Again
By Jon Whiten • Mar 19th, 2010 • Category: Blog, News
The public hearing on the portal bridge project, which had been rescheduled for next week after being canceled in February, has been canceled again. As we reported before the first meeting, advocates from the East Coast Greenway Alliance have been urging supporters to attend the meeting to advocate for a bicycle/pedestrian path to be included in the more than $1 billion project to reconstruct the vital rail link that takes the Northeast Corridor line over the Hackensack River.
No new date has been set for the meeting. In the meantime, public comment is currently being accepted in writing. You can send comments to Laurie Cotter, deputy county administrator, 567 Pavonia Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07305. The county asks that you send a copy of your comments to the DEP as well — New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Green Acres Program, Bureau of Legal Services and Stewardship, P.O. Box 412, Trenton, NJ 08625-0412.
The Greenway Alliance is also urging supporters to reach out to local members of Congress and the US Department of Transportation, whose leader Ray LaHood earlier this week called for parity in transportation policy and said the federal government will begin uging state departments of transportation to “treat walking and bicycling as equals with other transportation modes.”
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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