New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) contributes $1.6 billion to the state’s $3.5 billion annual transportation capital program (the rest comes from federal matching funds). The money is used to maintain and upgrade the state’s 40,000 miles of highways, roads […]
Posts Tagged ‘Transportation’
Transportation Trust Fund on the Road to Bankruptcy
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Support for Gas Tax from a Surprising Source
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Only 35 percent of the 628 responses said they thought hiking the gas tax amounted to a death wish for the state’s politicians.
Fare Hikes and Service Cuts Announced for NJ Transit
Friday, March 5th, 2010“New Jersey Future understands the gravity of the state’s current budget crisis, and we recognize that hard choices are necessary to address the situation. We believe, however, that placing this burden solely on transit riders, and not on the transportation […]
Poll Shows New Jersey Residents Concerned About Transportation Funding
Monday, March 1st, 2010A new Monmouth University poll commissioned by New Jersey Future and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign finds that 95 percent of New Jersey residents think it is important that we pay to maintain and improve our transportation system.
Stimulus Investment in Transit Creates Twice as Many Jobs as Roads
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010This according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), which analyzed data from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on state spending of federal stimulus dollars in 2009. The analysis found that “every billion dollars spent on public transportation produced […]
Groups to Governor Christie: No Cuts to Transit!
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Today New Jersey Future, along with 10 other planning, labor and environmental groups, released the following statement calling on Governor Christie to not cut funding for NJ Transit: A broad coalition of labor, environmental, and planning groups called on Governor […]
NJ Cities Dominate the Car-Free List – But for the Right Reasons?
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Streetsblog Capitol Hill takes a look at how to encourage less car ownership — and links to a Wikipedia page listing the cities with the greatest percentages of zero-car households. All of New Jersey’s cities of more than 100,000 population […]
Challenges Abound, Opportunity Knocks as Christie Prepares to Take Office
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Charting New Jersey on a path toward sustained economic growth will require many things, not the least of which is a resurrected state planning process.
Should we be happy or sad about fewer people on the road?
Monday, January 11th, 2010A couple of news items over the last few days have combined to serve as a good reminder that owning and driving a car is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Driving (at least non-recreational travel) […]
Smart Growth in Transition, Part II: Transportation
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Replenishing the Transportation Trust Fund will be the most immediate challenge confronting the incoming Christie administration.