Transportation

Today, the State Senate Transportation Committee has approved a bill to let private companies sponsor rest areas along New Jersey highways. The idea is to help ease the burden on taxpayers for maintenance and upkeep. Senator Donald Norcross sponsors the measure.

Airlines are generally shutting down their operations this afternoon at the three big New York-area airports, as well as in Boston, Providence and other Northeastern airports.

Amtrak says it has restored train service to Newark Liberty International Airport.

More people in the Metropolitan area are traveling by air these days.  Air passenger traffic at Newark Liberty, LaGuardia and JFK airports was up 10.2 percent in August compared to the same month last year, reaching 10.8 million passengers and breaking a five year record for the busiest month ever for the Port Authority's airport system.

Drivers convicted of violating current unsafe driving statute one or two times would be subject to increased fines, but not points under a bill approved today by the Senate Transportation Committee.

New Jersey Transit's text against terror program has generated 307 messages since it began in June 2011.

PATH riders should add cash to their fare cards.

Do you commute to work solo? If you do, you're one of the few. With skyrocketing gas prices and a still dismal economy, many workers are carpooling to the office these days.

The Borough of Dunellen has become the latest municipality accepted into the New Jersey Department of Transportation's statewide Transit Village program.  Acting Governor Kim Guadagno made the announcement today, making the borough the 26th to join the program which will work to revitalize the neighborhood near Dunellen's public transportation facilities.

The federal government is investing $10 million in New Jersey to support transportation initiatives designed to help build a more reliable, efficient transit system and create jobs.