Infrastructure

Transportation Executives Keep Region Moving During Pandemic

Apr07,2021

Despite reduced ridership impacting revenues this past year at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and NJ TRANSIT, agency executives, including the commissioner of the state Department of Transportation (DOT), said today the region is on the “road to recovery” thanks to billions of dollars of capital projects now underway or out to bid. Additionally, these initiatives are proceeding without the expected money coming from […]

Construction Starts Fall in July, Led by Drop in Infrastructure Work

Aug21,2020

By NJBIA

Total construction starts fell 7% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $631.6 billion, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. The decline was due to a significant pullback in the nonbuilding segment, which fell 31% from June to July. Nonresidential building starts rose 3% while residential building starts increased 2%. Year-to-date through seven […]

Murphy Promotes NJ Wind Port as First in the Nation

Jun19,2020

By Steve Wilson

Governor Phil Murphy today announced plans to develop the New Jersey Wind Port, a first-in-the-nation infrastructure investment that will provide a location for essential staging, assembly, and manufacturing activities related to offshore wind projects on the East Coast. The Wind Port has the potential to create up to 1,500 manufacturing, assembly, and operations jobs, as […]

Business, Labor Sound the Alarm on Gateway Tunnel Project

Mar19,2018

By NJBIA

With the Gateway tunnel project in danger of losing federal funding, numerous New Jersey business and labor groups, including NJBIA, are sounding the alarm on the economic impact if transportation across the Hudson River is hampered. In an op-ed that ran in today’s Star-Ledger, the groups noted that the existing tunnels to Penn Station, the […]

President Signs Executive Order to Streamline Approvals for Infrastructure Projects

Aug16,2017

By NJBIA

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday designed to speed up the approval process for road, bridge, pipeline and other infrastructure projects in the United States. The president’s action rolls back Obama-era rules regarding environmental reviews and restrictions on government-funded building projects in flood-prone areas. Those rules were enacted two years ago to reduce […]

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