Source: NJTransit“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 system as a whole, sends the wrong message about New Jersey’s […]
Posts Tagged ‘Transportation’
Fare Hikes and Service Cuts Announced for NJ Transit
Friday, March 5th, 2010Poll 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.
Source: www.monmouth.edu
Yet almost half of the state’s residents don’t know that the Transportation Trust Fund is going broke. The […]
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 19,299 job-months, compared to 10,493 job-months for every billion spent on highway infrastructure.” This analysis […]
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:
NJ Transit's Riverline in Trenton. Source: NJ.com
A broad coalition of labor, environmental, and planning groups called on Governor Christie to reconsider his proposal to drastically cut NJTransit funding, […]
NJ Cities Dominate the Car-Free List – But for the Right Reasons?
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Light Rail in Newark. Source: FTA
Streetsblog 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 make the list: Newark and Jersey City appear in the […]
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, 2010photo by author
A 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) is what economists call a “derived good” – something people consume not because […]
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.
Groups: New Jersey Needs a Complete Streets Policy
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Have you ever seen a road that ends abruptly in a patch of grass? It’s doubtful, since engineers design roads to precise specifications. But the same can’t be said of sidewalks and bike lanes in much of NJ. Photo: Route 70 in Cherry Hill, by Andrew Smith
This article was co-written with Tri-State’s Steven Higashide and […]
Congressman Holt Joins Daily Commute For ‘Take Your Legislator To Work Day’
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Source: New Jersey Future
In an effort to raise awareness of the need to reform federal transportation funding, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt recently joined a local constituent and Peter Kasabach of New Jersey Future for “Take Your Legislator to Work Day,” a challenge for elected officials to experience the daily commutes of New Jersey constituents. Rep. […]
