Hackensack NJ, almost two weeks after Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco said, “Let me make this crystal clear: the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail extension into Bergen County is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. This project, which is critically important for the residents and businesses of one of the most densely populated regions in the nation, holds the key to alleviating congestion, meeting the ever-growing mass transit demands of our community, and ultimately fostering a healthier and sustainable environment for all,” said County Executive Jim Tedesco.
Ho-Ho-Kus NJ, a historical plaque has been erected on East Franklin Turnpike in recognition of a set of original trolley tracks from the North Jersey Rapid Transit Line that are embedded in the sidewalk.
New York NY, Amtrak is getting a new home, moving its Penn Station operations across Eighth Avenue to the historic Farley Post Office Building on Jan. 1st.
Ridgewood NJ, NJ TRANSIT is offering modified service to get you where you’re going for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Customers will have plenty of flexibility with special service options offered on buses, trains and light rail lines.
New York NY it is no surprise to anyone who has ever taken a filthy subway in New York City , that a study from MIT claims that New York City became the American epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic because of the close proximity of its residents in mass transportation.
NEWARK NJ, A Newark man today admitted possessing heroin that was seized from him at Newark Penn Station, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
Jeremy Lorenzo, 30, of Newark, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty to one count of possession with intent to distribute more than 200 grams of heroin.
What is needed are fewer cars more public transportation. NO parking garage here no tearing down of islands at train station. Being satisfied with the room there is without mutilating the town design and encouraging more cars. Stores get enough business the way it is now. Making space for more cars on these narrow streets is wrong from a safety angle, an aesthetic angle, a health pollution angle, a comfort angle meaning more crowding. When town gets built up it will be another city like Hackensack.
“Glen Rock Makes the List of 19 hottest real estate markets in N.J.”
https://theridgewoodblog.net/glen-rock-makes-the-list-of-19-hottest-real-estate-markets-in-n-j/
Quote : A common thread? Trains The most easily identifiable trend among NJ’s hottest towns is clear — access to transit. Each of the towns are within minutes of an NJ Transit station, which despite the transit service’s recent woes, remains a tremendous draw for prospective home buyers.
Developers in RIDGEWOOD are trying to crack the safe in RIDGEWOOD, With build sell cut and run tactics leaving behind Traffic,Garagezillas, Water and service impacts to Homeowners.wake up property owners
What this article omits is that the cost of this boondoggle is $1.3 billion and climbing. So for $130,000,000 a mile, we will get what the proponents project to be 24,000 trips. At $2.25 per trip ( current light rail ticket price) assuming the projected number of rides are taken every single day of the year (a heroic assumption), it will take 65 years to pay this off, not counting interest.
The money for this comes from the newly hiked gas tax which will apparently be diverted from fixing roads and bridges to pleasing a few of Loretta’s constituents.
Funds available to take extension project through environmental-impact study, but money from Trump administration now appears iffy
A renewed state Transportation Trust Fund has reignited the planning process for the proposed light rail in eastern Bergen County, a $1.3 billion project that local officials say will ease traffic congestion and stimulate economic growth.
After a long period of delay, last month officials from New Jersey Transit released a draft of the latest revised plan for the proposed 10-mile extension of the Hudson-Bergen Line, which now ends in North Bergen. NJ Transit is in the midst of a 60-day public comment period on the latest plans, which would take the line up to Englewood, where two public hearings were held yesterday.
The goal here is NOT to serve the public by improving traffic flow.
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The goal is to reduce (and eventually kill) use of the evil automobile. One way to do that is by CREATING choke points (like those created by the bike lane) so that people get frustrated and abandon using their cars – at least in that area of town. Create enough choke points and (according to plan) people will eventually throw up their hands in frustration and abandon their cars and use public transportation.
By Larry Higgs | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on July 14, 2016 at 11:14 AM, updated July 14, 2016 at 12:12 PM
We asked, and you responded with some pretty insightful questions about the state’s road and transit construction shutdown.
While lawmakers and the governor try to hammer out a solution to replenish the state’s cash strapped Transportation Trust Fund and end the shutdown, readers asked questions about the billions of dollars that could be raised and how it will be used.
Q: Is the 23 cent gas tax increase for bridge and road construction, or (is it) funding New Jersey Transit? The seven costliest projects will buy buses and locomotives for NJT (example: $712.7 million for 772 buses). Not one cent goes towards our crumbling bridges and roads. Something is wrong here.
A: Let’s take those in order.
The TTF, which would be supported by a proposed 23 cent increase in the gas tax, funds both the Department of Transportation and NJ Transit, said Stephen Schapiro, a DOT spokesman. How much each agency receives is determined in the annual capital budget. The DOT will receive $1.017 billion from the trust fund and NJ Transit receives $582 million in fiscal year 2017.
After years of discussion and months of only preliminary progress, the Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River took a big step forward Wednesday when officials announced $70 million in new funding for preliminary engineering work, plus a framework establishing who has decision-making power over the project.
A train delay for the ages; increasing service in Bergen County among several stalled plans
NOVEMBER 29, 2015 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2015, 12:27 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
In May 1928, a group of forward thinkers in New York City drew a map of North Jersey that envisioned passenger trains running from Englewood to Jersey City on an existing set of railroad tracks, part of a network they confidently named the “Ultimate Suburban Rapid Transit Plan.”
At 1 p.m. on a Thursday this month, 86 years later, three powerful New Jersey senators gathered in a conference room overlooking the same tracks to demand a return of passenger trains to the line.
“This is a project that should have happened years ago,” state Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Wood-Ridge, said of the project, known as the “Northern Branch.”
Bringing more rail service to Bergen County may be North Jersey’s most stubborn transportation dream. Even now, depending on how one counts, there are between six and 11 efforts to return passenger service to historic train lines. And although passenger trains, bus lines and highways have spread across the region in the post-World War II era, people here have pushed, planned, schemed and begged for even more commuter rail, either to reduce traffic congestion or to connect places that are difficult to reach by mass transit. And the problem grows more acute the closer one gets to New York City. For densely populated towns in eastern Bergen County, like Englewood, Fort Lee and Tenafly, trains simply are not an option, as state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, often points out.
By Larry Higgs | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on August 26, 2015 at 8:00 AM, updated August 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Why are you almost always late for dinner or constantly missing your kids soccer games last year? Well, New Jersey residents wasted almost two work weeks in 2014 just sitting in traffic.
It’s not just your family and social life that suffered. Traffic in the New Jersey-New York region caused commuters to burn 35 more gallons of gas they wouldn’t have if traffic was flowing freely. And drivers paid $1,739 in fuel costs and wasted time for the privilege of staring at someone else’s brake lights in 2014.
The bad news was delivered in the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard, released Wednesday by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and INRIX, a supplier of travel time data.
Commuters driving in the New Jersey-New York-Connecticut region have the fourth-worst commute out of the 15 largest urban areas for delays. But we spend more money than any other region in the amount of gas we burn to schlep to and from work, the report said.
Don’t feel too smug if you commute elsewhere in the state, because two other New Jersey regions also made the list for crummy commutes in the report.
