JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY—It was a great time to be on public transit this past St. Patrick’s Day Weekend on March 16 and 17. PATH resumed normal service at Grove Street for westbound Journal Square and Newark-Penn final destination trains after completing the first phase of a rehabilitation
The Newark Subway run by New Jersey Transit (NJT) has much potential and is underdeveloped. It started as a replacement for the Morris Canal which was abandoned in the mid 1920’s. At that time, several cities, Newark, Bloomfield, Clifton, and Paterson purchased the canal route to be used for
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY—New Jersey Senate Bills S237, S258, and SCR34 were forwarded to the New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriate Committee from the New Jersey Senate Environmental and Energy Committee on Thursday, March 14. There was only one objection —to measure S237 —from Ray Cantor, who represented the New
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. This act created Section 8 and weakened the Fair Housing Act’s ability to support public social housing. It also further weaponized zoning. The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin,
These are not in the order of excellence, it is simply a list of groups that encourage cycling beyond recreation Have we missed a Essex Hudson group? Add in the comments below! Bike JC (Jersey City, Hudson) Brick City Bike Collective (Newark, Essex) VELO Bloomfield (Bloomfield– Halcyon Park, Essex) Bike&
The NJ State Senate Budget and Appropriation Committee passed S2931. The meeting leading to the passage included many theatrics that gave much to union construction of roads for gas-powered cars and added a $250 fee on electric vehicle purchases.
Layoffs at Prudential, Audible, RWJ Barnabas Health, TD Bank, & The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation —the continued cruelty of the lie of who builds America— the college degree edition
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY—It was a full house at the final NJ TRANSIT public hearing on Friday, March 8 in Newark on Governor Murphy’s January 24 proposal that will begin as a 15% NJ TRANSIT fare hike on July 1 and may ultimately result in an approximate 40% NJ
NEW JERSEY—The 114-year old Portal Bridge became stuck during morning rush hours on Thursday, March 7. The work-day long delay, stranded and ended the commute for tens of thousands of New Jersey/New York NJ TRANSIT commuters. From the FB group Delayed on New Jersey Transit support group administered
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY—Saturday, March 1, Jersey City’s Hudson Community College hosted the Night of Ideas presented by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation. The Night of Ideas is an annual almost decade old nocturnal marathon of events across the United States. It was first introduced in 2015 by
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