After a woman was found living inside a Family Fare sign in Midland, the grocery store committed to donating $10,000 to a local organization providing shelter and meals to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Midland’s Open Door in a Facebook post last week thanked Family Fare for the contribution toward its crisis shelters and soup […]
New Jersey legislators peppered the state’s top transportation leaders with questions about NJ Transit’s budget problems, a controversial project to widen the New Jersey Turnpike, questionable decisions over tolls during this year’s budget hearings and how pedestrian fatalities are being addressed. These hearings are held annually in the months after the governor announces his budget […]
Pennsylvania saw population declines in 41 of its 67 counties last year as deaths outpaced births in parts of the commonwealth and residents moved out of many rural areas, according to newly released U.S. Census estimates. The numbers, made public in March, mirror long-term projections, which predict waning populations across much of the Keystone State […]
A man convicted of murder in Delaware was busted carrying a ghost gun and a bag full of crack when he tried to sneak into a Bronx subway station without paying, police said Friday. Jermaine Greene, 42, was trying to slip through an opened exit door into the Fordham Road station in University Heights about […]
Many MBTA commuters are happy to hear about the new reduced fares for low-income riders. “I’ve looked at monthly passes, it’s crazy, so expensive,” said Gianna Braccini, a college student at Suffolk University, who rides the T daily. A lot of daily riders can spend nearly $100 a month. But now, some will be able […]
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story indicated that RTA would be considering raising adult ride fares from $1.75 to $2. That was the last fare increase RTA implemented in 2018. People can tell RTA how they feel about possible fare changes next month. RTA has proposed changes to all fare charges, including raising […]
Mar. 10—Here is the status of major bills at the halfway point of the 60-day legislative session. Here is the status of major bills at the halfway point of the 60-day legislative session. The bills that are alive have passed at least one chamber of the Legislature. The bills that are failing were not approved […]
For some, NJ Transit’s proposed fare increase come at a time of extreme hardship, others said the increase is palatable with improvements or changes to the proposal, while still others said it was unjustified because of the poor service and conditions they routinely experience. Those were among the sentiments expressed by the 15 people who […]
Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in Utah, according to a new poll of a hypothetical 2020 rematch in this year’s presidential election. According to the Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll, 43% of registered Utah voters say they would support Trump if a Trump-Biden general election were held today. Thirty-three percent said […]
The MTA’s faregate experiment at the Sutphin Blvd.-Archer Ave.-JFK subway station is showing results — a 20% reduction in fare evasion, say MTA officials, who attribute the improvement mainly to the removal of an emergency gate through which fare evaders often entered the Queens train stop. The new gates, installed in December, replaced one bank […]
Two weeks ago, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was patting himself on the back for the 20 tax cuts enacted since he took office for middle-class families and seniors. “Once again: this is how you build a state that is stronger and fairer,” he said during his State of the State speech. “And more affordable.” […]
NEW YORK — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration is proposing 15 percent fare hikes for New Jersey Transit riders, an increase that will hit some of the state’s most vulnerable residents and tens of thousands of people who commute to New York City for work. The double-digit fare increases come weeks after Murphy rejected […]