Category Archives: Transportation

The North Jersey Coast Line train service to Newark and New York, which was reported suspended due to Amtrak power problems earlier this hour, is said to be back in service but experiencing "significant" delays. Commuters are being advised to...

Guy Johnson of the Antique Center of Red Bank steamrolled the competition and was the first to identify last week's 'Where' as the railroad trestle that crosses West Front Street near Bridge Avenue. But the most compelling reply came from...

What's the right balance between security and aesthetics when designing airports, government buildings and skyscrapers in the post-Sept. 11, 2001 era? The Chicago Tribune's architecture writer, Blair Kamin—a son of Fair Haven—takes on this and related questions in a new...

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Fatalities on New Jersey's major raodways are up this year by 18 percent, reversing a general trend of increasing roadway safety, today's Bergen Record reports. The article comes less than a week after two accidents on a short stretch of...

"Jersey really in a jam," says a headline in today's Home News Tribune out of East Brunswick. "Jersey is in a jam as drivers beat retreat from the heat," says another, in today's Newark Star-Ledger. The Home News Tribune article,...

Fourteen stations along NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line have been targeted for safety improvements to pedestrian track crossings following an accident in Belmar earlier this month, according to the Asbury Park Press. The initial report by the Press did...

Pundits are calling it this generation's version of the building of the George Washington Bridge, and it moves closer to reality today. The Port Authority is expected today to authorize the first $1 billion of spending to develop and build...

New Jersey drivers above a certain age will no doubt remember that special form of torture known as the traffic circle. These were circular roadway alignments at major intersections meant to allow for continuous flows of traffic without the use...