rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/stop-the-i-78-turnpike-expansion-fund-nj-transit?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-stop-the-i-78-turnpike-expansion-fund-nj-transit' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Hudson County Complete Streets https://actionnetwork.org/groups/hudcostreets https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/326/436/normal/Screenshot_2024-04-15_at_10.57.46%E2%80%AFAM.png The Murphy Administration plans to spend $4.7 $10.7 billion to widen the I-78 Turnpike from Newark through Hudson County. This outdated plan out of the playbook of Robert Moses will do nothing but harm the environmental justice communities of Newark, Jersey City, and Hudson County, bringing more pollution, more congestion, and waste billions to only bottleneck traffic at the Holland Tunnel. Meanwhile, NJ Transit has a nearly $1 billion annual deficit and unfunded plans to expand transit service. Worse, they are planning to increase all NJ Transit fares by 15% with annual 3% increases thereafter. Just as bad, the fare increases will not fix NJ Transit’s underlying financial problems. There is a simple way to avoid this year’s fare hike and future ones. Instead of spending $10.7 billion on the unneeded, unwanted and disastrous Turnpike expansion in Hudson and Essex Counties that will worsen traffic and increase pollution with even more cars and trucks on the road, NJ should repurpose that money to fund and invest in more efficient and more sustainable public transit. Send a message to Governor Murphy, the Legislature, the NJ Turnpike Authority to stop the outfare increases, halt further spending on the Turnpike Expansion, repurpose the Turnpike funds, and provide NJ Transit with stable dedicated funding to improve, expand and modernize our public transit system.   https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-the-i-78-turnpike-expansion-fund-nj-transit