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Transportation Experts Urge Bistate Blue-Ribbon Panel to Fix Port Authority

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Transportation Experts Urge Bistate Blue-Ribbon Panel to Fix Port Authority

Robins, Doig say Assembly GOP plan ignores lesson of Bridgegate by giving governors too much power.

Calling for the creation of a bistate commission to reform the embattled Port Authority, two of New Jersey’s leading transportation policy experts yesterday said legislation proposed by Assembly Republicans ignores the lessons of Bridgegate by giving too much power to the state’s governors.

Martin E. Robins, director emeritus of Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Policy Institute, and Jameson W. Doig, author of the definitive history of the Port Authority, endorsed Assembly Republican proposals to enhance ethics, transparency, and financial disclosure at the Port Authority.

But Robins and Doig both sharply criticized the logic of the main reform the GOP legislators proposed to protect the agency from political interference. (Magyar/NJSpotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/02/21/transportation-experts-urge-bistate-blue-ribbon-panel-to-fix-port-authority/

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Port Authority policies, structure to face scrutiny by special committee

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Port Authority policies, structure to face scrutiny by special committee

Monday February 3, 2014, 7:03 PM
BY SHAWN BOBURG
STAFF WRITER
The Record

The George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal and a pair of controversies that grew out of them have exposed ugly truths about the Port Authority, the agency that has earned a reputation for secrecy, imperialism, and now political high jinks.

One leading Port Authority official said Monday the crisis has also created an opportunity to tackle some of the root causes and consequences of the agency’s recently-aired problems, including political patronage, a culture of fear, and conflicts of interest by commissioners.

Scott Rechler, the vice-chairman of the Port Authority, said in an interview that a five-member special committee, composed of three governor-appointed commissioners from New York and two from New Jersey, will be created later this month to consider policy changes and significant structural reforms to the 93-year-old bi-state agency.

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