A new report from the Regional Plan Association (RPA) says that New Jersey lawmakers need to confront head-on the problem with the Transportation Trust Fund, which is expected to be insolvent by mid-2011. At that point, it is projected that 100 percent of the $883 million collected each year in tolls, taxes and other fees [...]
It’s the economy, stupid.
That’s why the number of public transportation trips in New Jersey and across the United States decreased in 2009, according to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), which on Monday released its annual report on transit-riding statistics.
The total number of trips across the country fell to 10.2 billion in 2009, a 3.8 [...]
- Help for Transit? U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and other elected officials are set to announce this morning plans for a federal recovery act that would help offset the massive cuts that have come recently to NJ Transit, resulting in worker layoffs, fare hikes and service cuts.
- Cuts to UEZ Funds Hurting Cities: More than [...]
This afternoon, NJ Transit officials finally confirmed what everyone has known was coming: a proposal for a huge fare hike and widespread service cuts.
The agency’s plan entails raising fares by 25 percent systemwide. The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail fare, for example, would rise from $1.90 to $2.40 per trip.
“We recognize that any increase is [...]
- NJ Transit Readies Fare Hikes/Service Cuts: NJ Transit is expected by Friday to unveil proposed fare increases of as much as 30 percent and “across-the-system” service cuts on bus and train lines. Earlier this week, the agency cut hundreds of jobs and froze spending, while acknowledging that fare hikes and service cuts were on [...]
NJ Transit says it is implementing more than $30 million in budget cuts as part of its efforts to bridge a projected $300 million budget gap for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011. The cuts include laying off more than 200 workers, freezing spending, cutting executive pay and contributing less to employees’ retirement accounts. The agency [...]
A Monmouth University Poll released today finds that 95 percent of New Jerseyans think it is important that we pay to maintain and improve our transportation system via the Transportation Trust Fund, and 72 percent were concerned about its pending insolvency. But a full 45 percent of those polled had no idea that the fund [...]
- Local, state and federal cops say they disrupted a violent drug network with a six-month operation dubbed “Operation Wetlands.” The investigation came to a head with early morning raids yesterday that reportedly netted 46 people, including the 18-year-old Jersey City man who was shot in the face by an undercover cop earlier this year.
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- Get ready for a fare hike: NJ Transit’s nearly 900,000 bus, train and light rail riders could be hit with a fare hike as soon as May, the agency’s executive director said yesterday after the NJ Transit board meeting. The increase, which would be the fourth in the past eight years, comes as a [...]
- A NJ Transit union leader says that Gov. Christie’s decision to cut state funding for the transit agency will lead to fare hikes of up to 30 percent, service cuts and potential worker furloughs. Transit leaders are set to discuss the ramifications of the cuts today. For more, check out today’s Guest Opinion piece [...]
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