In the fifth and final installment of of our series on the key issues in this mayoral election, we talk to the candidates about their plans for transportation — from jitneys to bicycles to buses — in the city.
Share/Save At last night’s mayoral forum put on by the Heights Coalition, a group comprising ten neighborhood and local associations, the five candidates for mayor appeared on the same stage for the first time this campaign season. In answering the six questions posed to them, the candidates sounded some differences in policy and in approach [...]
Share/SaveThe 175-page draft Circulation Element of the city’s Master Plan, which was unveiled at a public meeting on Monday night, is currently in a public comment period that ends Monday, March 30 at 5 pm. The plan is expected to be taken up by the City Council as soon as next month. The Mobility 2050 [...]
Share/Save- Jersey City’s sex offender residency restriction law may be in jeopardy. The state Supreme Court is set to hear a case revolving around whether or not municipalities have the power to enact such laws, or if it is a state matter. Since 2005, Jersey City and 117 other NJ municipalities have passed residency restriction [...]
Share/SaveChristopher O. Ward, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, stopped by NYTimes.com last week to answer reader questions. He notes that the World Trade Center Transportation Hub is scheduled to be complete by the second quarter of 2014, but as Ian MacAllen points out, Ward did not address [...]
Share/Save- A number of candidates have filed petitions to run for the Board of Education in the April 21 election. With three seats up for grabs, incumbents Anthony Cucci and board president William DeRosa are running, as are Evans Burke, Sean Connors, Khaled Dardir, Eric J. Goldsmith, Mario Gonzalez, Charles W. Johnson, Abdul J. Malik, [...]
Share/SaveLast week the Board of Commissioners of the the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized a $47.6 million project to replace and upgrade the PATH train’s No. 7 substation near Journal Square. The substation converts high-voltage power into usable levels for the trains. The current substation needs to be replaced because it [...]
Share/SaveTrains on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail are not stopping at the Pavonia-Newport stop this morning. JC cops asked NJ Transit to close the station after reports began surfacing of windows breaking in the surrounding office buildings due to the high winds. It will reportedly remain closed for the evening rush, so commuters are being asked [...]
Share/Save At a public meeting held last Thursday to discuss the future of transit in Jersey City, urban planners laid out long-term goals while citizens voiced their present-day problems with the city’s public transportation. It was the second public meeting for Jersey City Mobility 2050, a long-term planning project that seeks to address the city’s [...]
Wednesday night’s City Council meeting saw the passage into law of eight new city ordinances, the introduction of two ordinances and not all that much else, policy-wise, but it was still quite a show.
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