If one bares in mind that the current configuration of EWR was laid out in the 1970s than it's doing an admirable job. I've been through only three airports, EWR, Minneapolis International, and Tampa International. The last two would be considered decidedly better than EWR fpr most people but honestly I can't say that they blow EWR out of the water. It's a major airport, I'm not expecting much.

I suspect a lot of people involved these projects dig the old school aesthetic for buildings in downtown area.

While connecting the two makes sense in general terms and in an ideal world we would. In world where they are funding priorities and there are many places with inadequate transit, it makes very little sense. To a state legislator or administrator overseeing grant money at the Federal Transit Administration it wouldn't make any sense. I think they would wisely argue, why not, for less money fund improvements to PATH service or improved bus service between the two cities and focus on transit expansion to the areas that are currently lacking? HBLR Northern Branch extension, NLR to Paterson, Hawthorne/Paterson to Hackensack rail, Union County BRT, Bergen County BRT? At the end of the day, there is a glut of need and not a lot of money, why duplicate existing service with something that costs a ton of money, when you can just improve the existing services, and use the money you save to improve transit to areas that are not well served?

and when it tried the community effectively killed them. The Forest Hills bike lanes are sad to see with them being relegated to space for double parking.

That is going to be an extremely difficult sell. Duplicates existing PATH and #1 bus service, plus there are two condemned moveable bridges that will have to be rebuilt along the way. I also suspect you'd have build an underground portion as the line enters the more built up portion of the Ironbound. Infamously the ex-CNJ Row between Newark and Jersey City was dubbed the most expensive rail line.

Bare in mind, that outside of the #7 Subway line, those streetcars ran in mixed traffic.

The Summit High Line in Summit is in its early stages. A very tiny portion is built and the rest is being constructed gradually. The NYS&W Rail Trail between Wayne and Pequannock is under construction and making good progress. In New York, parts of the old Putnam and New York Railroad have been converted into a rail trail.

Afghanistan I think.

Belleville Turnpike Bridge, in season 1 or season 2 of the Sopranos you can see the older Bascule drawbridge version of the bridge that the new lift span replaced. The towers house the lift mechanisms for the bridge. I use to walk across that bridge a ton when I lived in Belleville. I even saw the bridge open for marine traffic once.

The 7-Eleven on Broad Street is also closing I believe.

From the hearsay I've heard apparently the changes NJ Transit riders wanted didn't necessarily go like peanut butter and jelly with the constraints NJ Transit placed on the project. So NJ Transit was asked to rework some things on their end, but as far I'm aware NJ Transit wants to see it through. Part of the reason for a possible Microtransit service around EWR and Port Newark is to more efficiently route bus, which was in line with the plan's recommendations.

You're welcome. I went through this process not that long ago.

From an NJMVC document, "If you have a driver license from another state, and it is currently valid or expired less than three (3) years ago, you should make an appointment for an out-of-state transfer. Make sure you bring all the required documents."

"If your license expired more than three (3) years ago, you will have to start over with a first-time driver license or ID. Non-driver ID’s issued by a state other than New Jersey, are noteligible for proof towards qualifying for a NJ standard license."

Thanks for sharing this website. I'll give the petition a sign.

That's Turnpike's money, not NJ Transit's money. It could be NJ Transit money but the way Trenton funds NJ Transit is inadequate. No seperate, dedicated operating budgets and the capital budget is a hand to mouth affair with funds pulled from all over the state budget.

I don't think its case of refusing, I think its more a case of a lack of money stacked against a ton of other capital projects.

Gloucester bus study is going along at a steady pace.

Not really. All of these are things are projects NJ Transit has been working on already. None of these things are really out there.

Lack of money is the simple answer. Trenton doesn't give NJ Transit a sufficient operating budget, let alone a capital budget.

1. I really like the parks in Newark, particularly Branch Brook park in the spring.
2. Overall the mass transit access is pretty good, could be better but better than many places.
3. Food around here is pretty good, just wish places in downtown were open later and on the weekends.
4. Convenient access to both an international airport and a major train station with service to a nice variety of locations.

Official NJ Transit press release about the discontinuation.

I forgot to make a small caveat. Intermodal traffic (containers and truck trailer) which typically operate in their own unit trains and are usually under stricter time constraints than regular general traffic and bulk commodities.

In its present form yes, additionally widening the existing viaduct over Gateway Field would be politically contentious, so would be expanding the Waldo Tunnel and while you could double track Long Dock Tunnel you would succumb to clearance limits which would prohibit certain freight cars from going through, at that point you would have to do some serious engineering/reconstruction work to accommodate those cars while double tracking the tunnel. Its a lot of money for comparatively little benefit. The construction of the Waverly Loop, which was completed this year, bypasses this problem entirely. Double stack container trains can leave Port Jersey go over the Newark Bay Bridge and than turn onto the Passaic & Harsimus Branch to continue north. Here is the slideshow from the NJTPA's Freight Initiatives Meeting which included reps from the Port Authority and Conrail. Its provides details on current projects, future projects and hard numbers for the ExpressRail facilities.

Or just better accounting for how much wear and tear trucks put on our roads and bridges.