A New Jersey law signed in 2020 calls for NJ Transit to make sure all of its bus purchases are zero-emission vehicles by the end of 2032.
According to a report released Wednesday by New Jersey Policy Perspective, there s no way the transit agency will come close to achieving that goal, unless something changes. In fact, according to the progressive think tank, progress toward a fully electric bus fleet will already be well behind schedule in just the next few years.
NJPP s report, which was released with a news conference over Zoom, pointed to the many ways NJ Transit can help offset the costly acquisition and deployment of electric buses, and identified potential sources of funding to make full electrification an attainable goal sooner rather than later.
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An articulated electric bus in service just across the Hudson in New York City
Clean-energy advocates urged New Jersey transportation planners to quickly replace the state’s fleet of diesel buses with electric ones, arguing that the new vehicles would cut greenhouse-gas emissions, reduce maintenance and fuel bills and improve public health.
New Jersey Policy Perspective, a liberal think tank, issued a report on Wednesday saying that adoption of electric buses would improve air quality, especially for people in environmental-justice communities who are more likely to use public transit than other residents.
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Amended whistleblower suit accuses private bus company of defrauding NJ Transit since 2003
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
New court documents including an amended whistleblower’s lawsuit alleged that Academy Bus defrauded NJ Transit starting in 2003, years earlier than the state’s original $15 million suit filed last November contended.
The allegations were in an unsealed 2017 whistleblower lawsuit and a version amended earlier this month that was filed by Hector Peralta, a former Academy employee, who claims he was asked to doctor missed trip reports the private carrier filed with NJ Transit for bus service it was hired to run under contract. North Jersey.com first reported the new allegations Friday.
UpdatedWed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:33 am ET
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NJ Transit suspended service between Trenton and Metropark, after a pedestrian was fatally struck. (Google street view)
EDISON, NJ – New Jersey Transit suspended service between Trenton and Metropark on Tuesday morning after a pedestrian was fatally struck near Edison station.
Around 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday, train 3920, which departed Trenton at 6:47 a.m., fatally struck the pedestrian just east of Edison station, said Nancy Snyder, chief communications officer, NJ Transit.
NJ Transit did not release any information on the pedestrian.
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New Jersey Transit Police is currently leading the investigating.
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