Transportation

The Obama administration will make nearly half a billion dollars in unspent highway funds available to states that promise to use the money to create jobs and improve transportation.

For the second consecutive year, PATH ridership through the first six months of 2012 is on pace to set a new record.  During the period January 1 through June 30, 2012, PATH ridership is about four percent ahead of last year's record pace.

New Jersey is getting more than 76 million dollars in grant money from the Feds to upgrade New Jersey Transit's bus fleet.

There's some good news for Jersey commuters who get to work on a train or a bus.

President Barack Obama on Friday plans to sign into law legislation that prevents interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students and maintains jobs on transportation projects across the nation.

President Barack Obama has signed a short-term bill that avoids interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students and maintains jobs on transportation projects across the nation.

New Jersey lawmakers have advanced a bill to do road construction and other transportation projects despite lawmakers' misgivings about borrowing to pay for it.

They're funded through tax dollars and tolls.  Yet, a March report on the Delaware River Port Authority found millions of dollars in toll money misspent and misused over the last decade.

Today, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration has awarded the Essex County Improvement Authority $544,000 in funds to improve the Essex County Airport.

Many Jersey commuters are constantly complaining about over-crowding on trains and highways, but the head of the New Jersey Department of Transportation insists progress is being made.