Congressman Josh Gottheimer joined local North Jersey labor leaders and officials to highlight how urgently the region needs infrastructure investment to fix our bridges, tunnels, and roads.

Whether sitting in the virtual parking lot that Route 80 becomes at “rush” hours, or in a rail car held up because of yet another derailment, New Jersey commuters are finding it more arduous to simply get to work.  And it looks like it’s about to become worse.

In what is probably not mere coincidence, census data reveal that Sussex County has some of the worst work commutes in New Jersey, along with the highest rate of people fleeing their towns.

Many of New Jersey’s state senators, including senate president Steve Sweeney and Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, hope that president-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure by making the Gateway Tunnel project a priority.

The Transportation Trust Fund fiasco is hard to understand unless you look at it as a naked power play by lame duck Governor Chris Christie.

A couple of days ago, after blaming everyone but himself for the Transportation Trust Fund crisis, Chris Christie told reporters that few New Jersey motorists even noticed the effects of the road and bridge repair shutdown he ordered.

Chris Christie sure showed New Jersey Democrats who’s boss. In a fit of pique, he shut down state funded road projects. Way too late, he just woke up to a Transportation Trust Fund crises he denied the existence of until about a month ago.

GOP State Senator Steve Oroho seeks input for proposed legislation to make construction and maintenance of highway infrastructure more cost efficient. Last night, he gathered local elected officials at the Lafayette House looking for suggestions.

New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund is in trouble. The source of funding to fix our roads, bridges and infrastructure will run dry within the next several months.