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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

NJ Transit Fares Won't Increase in 2013

Capital program includes funding for several new trains and buses

Commuting can be stressful and time consuming, but it seems no matter how you slice it it's always expensive. Even buying a monthly rail ticket, it costs about $5,000 a year for the trek from the Red Bank or Little Silver station to New York Penn Station.  With that in mind, it may come as a relief to commuters that NJ Transit will not be upping their fares in 2013. The Board of Directors recently approved a $1.904 billion operating budget and a $1.152 billion capital program for the 2013 fiscal year, which began on July 1, according to a news release from the company. Fares account for $894.2 million, which is nearly half of the operating budget. The remainder is drawn from about $109.8 million in commercial revenues, $363 million in …

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Toll Hikes: What Do You Think?

Christie considering veto of proposed increases at crossings.

A couple of weeks ago, I drove into New York to pick up a childhood friend who had taken a bus into the city for a visit. By the time I'd driven us back to New Jersey, then back into Manhattan for her trip home, then left the city myself, I'd spent enough on tolls and crossings to take us out to dinner.  Sure, we have to pay for transportation. But the drive always leaves me with the same feeling of being squeezed simply for the privilege of sitting in traffic – and it could get worse. Last week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey proposed raising tolls by $4 next month on the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and increasing fares on the PATH train by $1 and raise tolls on cars an additional $2 in …

Bob Cecere Jr

8:31 am on Friday, August 12, 2011

What do I think? It's an outrage. Corzine raised the tolls a couple of years ago in the middle of the economic meltdown. Those same tolls are due to be raised again, significantly, in January. Now the PANYNJ wants to raise the tolls, and we are still in a bad economy, where people are hurting (because the government has done little to help people). Raising tolls takes money out of peoples pockets…   more ›

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