Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
At 10.5 cents per gallon, New Jersey has the third-lowest gasoline tax in the nation; only Alaska and Georgia* are lower. Washington has the highest tax: 36 cents per gallon.
New Jersey’s gasoline tax has not been raised since 1988. If the tax had kept pace with inflation, it would be 16 cents per gallon […]
New Jersey’s most pressing financial problem is transportation funding
New Jersey is second only to New York in the percent of workers who commute by public transit.
New Jersey, with one of the most extensive transit infrastructures in the nation, holds an advantage in transportation choice today.
New Jersey, with one of the most extensive transit infrastructures in the nation, is ideally poised to capture the rising wave of demand for housing near transit and simultaneously rebuild its older communities.
A proposal to raise the gas tax by 12.5 cents per gallon would have a minimal impact on the drivers of fuel-efficient vehicles, and a large payoff for all drivers if the funds are used as proposed for the repair of today’s aging infrastructure and projects to alleviate heavy traffic.
Traffic Delays
Size isn’t everything. In large cities where growth was planned around transportation investments like trains and subways, traffic delays are a fraction of those experienced by smaller cities where growth has largely followed the automobile.
Case in point: The 16.4 million people in the New York/Northeastern NJ area are delayed by traffic an average […]
Road Costs and New Development
Laying a local, two-lane road typically costs $1 million a mile.
The cost per resident can be reduced dramatically if plans for new roads are coordinated with plans for more compact development – even when that development is no more “compact” than found in a small town.
Roads built to serve sprawling […]
Transportation
Given the choice, 57 percent of New Jerseyans polled last month said they would prefer the state improve public transportation over building new roads.
The preference for improved public transit was consistent in every region of the state. New Jerseyans in the Central and Northwest regions were nearly tied in favor of public transit, at […]
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