As part of the package of fare hikes and service cuts NJ Transit unveiled in April, weekend and holiday service on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail will change for good beginning this Saturday, meaning a longer trip for some Heights residents heading to New York City.
The streamlining of the train routes leaves the light rail with [...]
- Apparent Murder-Suicide on Storms Avenue: A recently engaged Jersey City couple was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide yesterday morning — and the woman’s 15-year-old son made the bloody discovery.
- Medical Contract at Jail Hits Another Snag: Approval of a new five-year medical services contract at the Hudson County jail stalled once again last [...]
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 [...]
Last February, the City Council tabled the Journal Square Redevelopment Plan, a long-term visioning project covering a roughly 244-acre swath of land in and around Journal Square.
Now a slimmed-down proposal is back in the legislative pipeline, with the Planning Board set to review the Journal Square Core Redevelopment Plan this Tuesday evening.
The plan essentially [...]
Last month, the Obama administration announced a whopping $8 billion in federal stimulus money that is going to 31 states to build and plan for high speed rail. As part of that, New Jersey has been tapped to receive $38.5 million for the reconstruction the Portal Bridge, a century-old structure that takes Amtrak and NJ [...]
The German company Siemens says a consortium that it leads has signed a $321 million contract with the Port Authority to modernize and automate the PATH system, increasing rider capacity from 240,000 to 290,000 passengers a day by 2017.
The contract covers the implementation of a new Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) on the system, which Siemens [...]
Last week the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized an additional $2 million for planning the replacement of the PATH train’s s No. 8 substation east of the New Jersey Turnpike in Kearny. The substation converts high-voltage power into usable levels for the trains.
The PATH system has [...]
Environment New Jersey released a report yesterday on ridership statistics for the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR), and what those statistics mean in terms of overall environmental quality and land-use policy.
The group found that nearly 16 million riders used the HBLR system in 2007, a more than 13 percent increase over 2007’s ridership numbers. That outpaces [...]
The Jersey City Master Plan’s Circulation Element, a long-term multimodal transportation planning document, has been given the Outstanding Plan Award by the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association.
The circulation element, which you can peruse here if you’re so inclined, is the product of two years of work by the city’s planning department, [...]
In 2008, transit ridership in New Jersey increased by more than 5 percent above 2007 levels, according to a report released last week by the nonprofit group Environment New Jersey (in conjunction with their national partner Environment America). Conversely, there was a 4 percent decrease in the number of miles driven in the state, which [...]
 |
 |
 |
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
