New Jersey
New Jersey Seeks $640M From Uber for Misclassifying Workers
The threat of classifying workers as employees is the single biggest worry among investors in companies such as Uber and Lyft. (Richard Drew/Associated Press)
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is seeking more than $640 million from Uber in taxes and penalties, saying the ride-booking company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors.
November 14, 2019NJ Transit Want Ad: Seeking Partner to Move Stadium-Size Crowds
A look at the interior of the American Dream mega entertainment and shopping complex in East Rutherford, N.J., on Oct. 25, 2019. The mall is expected to worsen the snarl of traffic in the area. (Richard Drew/Associated Press)
New Jersey Transit is seeking private partners to help transport “a stadium’s worth of people” — plus newly arriving megamall crowds.
November 6, 2019NJ Transit’s Angry Riders Prompt Crew Training to Stem Assaults
A New Jersey Transit train arrives at the station in Secaucus, N.J. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg News)
A soaring number of physical assaults on New Jersey Transit employees have led the agency to step up anti-violence training as bus and train riders vent about crowding and cancellations.
October 28, 2019New Jersey Mall Could Mean Wall-to-Wall Traffic
A general view of the construction site of the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, N.J., on April 25, 2019, as seen from Secaucus, N.J. (Associated Press/Julio Cortez)
After 16 years of false starts, the behemoth American Dream retail and amusement complex is set to open just west of Manhattan. To get there, an expected 40 million visitors must join the traffic-choked roads of northern New Jersey.
September 3, 2019NYC-Area Rail Bridge Planners Take Another Shot at Federal Funds
Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg News
New Jersey and New York officials will submit a revised financial plan for the $1.6 billion replacement of a decrepit bridge that’s key to rail traffic in the U.S. Northeast, the latest attempt to secure funding from a recalcitrant administration.
August 28, 2019New Jersey Steps Up Efforts to Identify Misclassified Workers
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Associated Press/Seth Wenig)
The New Jersey Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Labor signed a joint agreement to step up efforts to protect employees, including truck drivers, from illegal misclassification as independent contractors.
August 20, 2019New Jersey DOT Awards More Than $30 Million to Improve Freight Routes
Walt Whitman Bridge connects the Port of Camden (right) with Philadelphia. (WikiCommons)
The New Jersey Department of Transportation announced $30.1 million in grant funding dedicated to improving local roads that serve as freight conduits.
July 24, 2019Federal Transportation Policymakers to Visit N.Y.-N.J. ‘Gateway’
A New Jersey Transit train bound for New York enters one of the 100-year-old trans-Hudson tunnels in North Bergen, N.J. (Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg)
An area along the Hudson River in New York and New Jersey will be the site of a field trip federal policymakers have scheduled for the week of April 29 to raise the profile of a tunnel project known colloquially as “Gateway.”
April 26, 2019New Jersey’s Sen. Robert Menendez, Bob Hugin Disagree on Infrastructure Funding
Hugin (left) and Menendez debate on Oct. 24 in Newark, N.J. (Julio Cortez, Pool/Associated Press)
This November, if New Jersey voters elect Republican political novice Bob Hugin to the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump’s chances of advancing an infrastructure funding agenda through Congress next year could improve.
October 25, 2018New Jersey DOT Announces $47 Million for County Bridge Maintenance Projects
Murphy by Julio Cortez/Associated Press
The New Jersey Department of Transportation announced July 31 that more than $47 million in grants has been issued for county bridge maintenance projects.
August 1, 2018