Happy New Year, NJ Transit! @customeradvocate.bsky.social

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Happy New Year- let's continue to be more careful out there. www.nj.com/news/2026/01...

It's interesting that people think congestion pricing only works if you have New York density and transit -- folk wisdom. Congestion pricing can work anywhere you use it. Most car trips in the USA are under 3 miles. Congestion pricing removes both implied and explicit subsidies to drive everywhere.

As this explains, it's *always* been a patronage mill, and all promises that expansion will fix traffic have proven to be wrong. www.northjersey.com/story/news/t...

If you missed our show in Brooklyn, this will be a great chance to see us live! We're looking forward to taking the PATH to Jersey City.

The price to replace the airport monorail come at the cost of extending PATH to the airport www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

What happens when four lanes of a new NJ Turnpike bridge meets a two lane highway on the other side? Opponents want a project paused for answers.

This. And also, I have yet to see even one public statement or document that rules out the project being a #TurnpikeTrojanHorse. I.e., building a huge roadbed striped for 4 car lanes and suspiciously wide shoulders—which, after the project “ends,” can easily be painted as new lanes, “for safety.”

This is something that bothers me when people take an us vs them in neighborhood issues @ transportation. Everyone actually wants the same thing... less traffic.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy scaled back his planned $11-billion widening of the New Jersey Turnpike, but the lame duck executive's so-called "compromise" will still induce thousands more cars and trucks onto Garden State roadways.

Someone let Phil Murphy know.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

The Turnpike Trap Coalition publishes the following statement in response to NJTA's Friday announcement. The "cancellation" is misleading: ❌ Proceeding with 4 new lanes adding >20K cars and trucks a day to Newark & Jersey City ❌ Tear down and rebuild plans after 14A are murky ❌ No dollars for NJT

Not good enough.

NJ announced a change to the Turnpike expansion project: it WON'T widen the Turnpike extension in Bayonne & JC. That's a win, but not time to take a victory lap yet. They'll still add car lanes on the bridge approaching it, so, more cars, pollution, & traffic. Spend that $10.5 bil on NJT instead!

The new plan is still doubling the size of the bridge. Still spending $11B to bring more cars into Jersey City. Still wasting NJ money for more highway instead of better transit. There is some progress here - but our work is from far over.

This feels like an underappreciated problem: "Of more than 700 locations sampled, 61% exceeded aquatic life thresholds set by the EPA...60% of samples blew past the accepted healthy drinking water standard."

Now that Gateway complied with a rule they were given less than 24 hours to follow after enactment, when will the feds send the $$$ they legally committed to? www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

Two significant steps taken to start building this $2 billion light rail despite opposition from 5 towns on the route. www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

At the NJ Bike Walk summit today, great to hear NJ DOT commissioner Fran O'Connor commit to 1) revisiting the $11B Turnpike widening into Jersey City in light of the overwhelming community opposition, and 2) commitment to zero road deaths by 2040. Bravo 👏

The good news is one track of a critical new bridge will go in service, but the transition work will affect rail commuters. www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

Breathe easy, New Yorkers! New data from Cornell University shows congestion relief cut air pollution by a whopping 22% within the zone. That's on top of pollution rates declining earlier this year in places like South Bronx & Staten Island. Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cars don't fit in FiDi, and they're not needed: "Almost all subway lines and the PATH trains from New Jersey converge on the neighborhood, and 78 percent of households in the City Council district don’t own a car, while 85 percent get to work on foot or on transit"

Unbelievable. The Jersey Avenue Light Rail wait time screen has a wallpaper. Meanwhile, Garfield Avenue still doesn’t have any screens! NONE! #njtransit @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

Critics oppose plan for new e-bike regulations in NJ newjerseymonitor.com/2025/12/04/n...

The majority of work days in December are Gridlock Alert Days. Governor Hochul could get rid of holiday traffic, simply by telling the MTA to use this power they already have. Instead, she's leaving commuters stuck in terrible traffic. Change her mind: (518) 474-8390

I mean - New York City should be seeing improvement not just "no change" - Congestion Pricing needs to increase, in order to stave off the increase of driving everywhere else. This is a good first step, but we need to be bolder if we want to see real improvement. London improved by 10% since 2024.

BREAKING: traffic is getting worse around the country — but not in NYC. Why? Because the congestion relief program is working. www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/inrix-t...

A few weeks ago, PATH announced a series of service expansions that will finally reverse this trend. Though paired with a rather steep fare increase, these changes will finally put weekend PATH service levels above where they were 25 years ago. Huge congrats to all the advicates who made this happen

Possibly the lowest hanging urbanism fruit in the entire country is building trains in New Jersey!

Always a mind f*ck to look at our transit network from a different orientation

There’s so much discourse about megaprojects it sucks the air out of the room for everything else. I thought I’d list several smaller transit projects ideas in New Jersey, some of which come from NJT’s famously ambitious 2000 strategic plan (pictured) and some of which are mine or others’ ideas.

Rick Cotton is stepping down from the Port Authority. We need to pressure Hochul to appoint someone who cares about transit.

Majority of people who commute into NY from NJ do so by bus via the Lincoln Tunnel. Please don’t forget about these people @kim.senate.gov @mikiesherrill.bsky.social Lincoln Tunnel bus service has a bigger impact than the Raritan Valley line. Here are the buses with yearly ridership over 1m.

NJ Wish List Mega/Improbable: Kennedy Blvd Subway Mega/Possible: 7 train extension Moderate/Achievable: HBLR Northern Branch Simple/Affordable: Kennedy Blvd BRT

Stuck in traffic today? As part of the congestion pricing legislation, New York has the power to free the zone of traffic jams during Gridlock Alert Days by dynamically increasing the congestion pricing fee by 25%. But Governor Hochul directed the MTA *not* to use this power.

One underated thing is I think drivers are probably pissed at the endless useless Turnpike expansions that they don't want or need.

I want to live in a world where the cancer/dementia/trauma/asthma inducing Turnpike Extension doesn’t exist. But at the very least, I want to live in a world where state of NJ doesn’t bankrupt the government by wasting billions of dollars widening it. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

NJ Turnpike Authority do not care about affordability for NJ, even though they are a public agency and report to the governor. We are being force fed an $11B highway widening in Hudson County, when instead we could fund NJ Transit or pay $$ back to taxpayers #turnpiketrap @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

Looks we had another fatal crash on I-78 in Newark this weekend www.nj.com/essex/2025/1...

This Union is behind the Turnpike Expansion. They are the only constituency who showed up in support of the project at the "info sessions" and the community meeting. Jobs are important, but these workers deserve more than a poison pill, better jobs than worsening asthma and destroying communities.

This is a huge thing for PATH riders who will see better more freqeunt service starting in March 2026. www.nj.com/news/2025/11...

The Bronx has long borne the brunt of pollution and heavy truck traffic. Now it’s time for the borough to reap the rewards of congestion relief. Learn why and how from THE POINT CDC's Dariella Rodriguez and NYC-EJA's Kevin Garcia 👇 www.bxtimes.com/bronx-bigges...

@turnpiketrap.org @njturnpike.org 👀

Celebrating this project is annoying, a shiny object. Instead they could have followed their capital plan to connect the PATH to the Airport, serving loads more travelers and employees. This would have improved a critical regional connection between the airport and Newark, Jersey City, and NYC.

We love you here in Jersey City Governor-Elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social Can you cancel the Turnpike Ext project? It will make lots more people sicker than the current arrangement. We don't want anymore dementia highways 'round here. Plus the state has no $, so why waste billions on it? Please 😬

Gift article - NJ Transit is doing random ticket spot checks to cut down on millions in lost revenue www.nj.com/news/2025/11...

So is she going to blow $10 billion on a turnpike widening that no one wants or is she going to do some transit?

Ouch … (Metropolitan routine)