Lautenberg Sends Support Letter for Bike/Ped Access on Portal Bridge
By Jon Whiten • Jun 1st, 2010 • Category: Blog, News
As we’ve reported, the East Coast Greenway Alliance is fighting to get access for bicycles and pedestrians as part of the new Portal Bridge being constructed to cross the Hackensack River.
Late last month the Alliance got a key supporter on board in the form of U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. In a May 20 letter of support to federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the senator says the bridge has the potential to provide “a key connection for a non-motorized link between New Jersey’s two largest cities, Newark and Jersey City.”
Lautenberg adds that in the Portal Bridge case a decision in favor of bike/ped access, which LaHood has generally supported as policy, would “be a major precedent for the future of ‘rail with trail’ access in the United States.”
Lautenberg Letter RE: Portal Bridge
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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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