Commuters who want to preview Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed $2.5 billion streetcar project for Brooklyn and Queens can cross the Hudson River and check out New Jersey Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, which rides smoothly and has triggered an economic boom since it opened in 2000.
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New Jersey officials said a proposal to extend the Hudson-Bergen light rail system into Bergen County has enough support from lawmakers to make the plan a reality. State Senator Loretta Weinberg is pushing to get started on the project immediately, but funds are still needed to support the plan, WCBS 880’s Levon Putney reported.
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Phillip A. Washington, CEO for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), announced the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Project, the very first rail line funded and built thanks to the 2008 Measure R countywide sales tax, will officially open to the public on Saturday, March 5.
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“The Women Can Build campaign aims to bring awareness to the hardworking and capable women who are building America’s 21st century transportation.”
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“This settlement is a win for Los Angeles taxpayers, transit riders, the environment, and working families,” said Madeline Janis, Director of the Jobs to Move America coalition.
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